Choropleth Maps (US & Global)

[brian sullivan]

Greetings Chandoo community,

I'm reaching out to gather feedback on whether people here suggest Excel Choropleth Maps. I'm interested in knowing how manually intensive they are in terms of VBA coding, ability to integrate data, & presentation value.

Per my research, there are resources out there for these Maps. However, I've read information from these articles below showing interesting feedback. I would love to hear what works best.

http://www.clearlyandsimply.com/cle...ter-choropleth-maps-with-microsoft-excel.html

 

[Luke M]

Hi Brian,

Many of the dashboards from a contest awhile back used Choropleth type maps. Most of them just went down to state resolution, but same principle could be applied to scale up/down. Best part is, the dashboards are all downloadable, so you can see how the authors created them.

http://chandoo.org/wp/2014/06/12/state-migration-dashboard-contest-entries/

For a different take on choropleths discussing some of their drawbacks:
http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/07/24/medicare-chart-critique/