What is a Choropleth?

A Choropleth also sometimes referred to as a Heatmap, is a map that uses color coded shading of areas/regions to illustrate how a measurement varies across a geographic area.

The desired effect shows a level of variability across regions so business users can quickly assess the high and low values.

For Business Intelligence applications Choropleths are particularly useful when a measure does not have an associated target. Creating Choropleths in SAP Dashboards is a breeze using alerts functionality and grants complete control over color and logic.

Get Started with A Template

The following template allows you to plug and play your own data for world by country and explore how easy Choropleths can work in CMaps Analytics.

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Configuration Steps

Step 1. Connect CMaps Analytics to shapes or points (view configuration Shapefiels tutorial)

Step 2. Connect the Values property on the general tab. The values property will define one numeric value per location, which is then utilized to draw your Choropleth.

Step 3. Go to the Alerts tab and enable alerts for the series.

Step 4. Select Values Alert Option.

Step 5. Define the Alert threshold values, which will indicate the steps for coloring your Choropleth. Defining Alert thresholds will rely on a minimum, maximum, and midpoint for your values data. These values are easily calculated, along with steps in between.

The following Excel formulas are required:

Minimum:  MIN()

Maximum: MAX()

Midpoint:   (Maximum-Minimum)/2

Step 6. Bind the colors (one per level), using a color-based gradient. We have provided samples below along with a Choropleth color generator.

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Choropleth Color Generator

First color:	#
Second color:	#
Third color:	#	(optional)
Steps:		(2..10)
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