Power Map for Excel

Abstract

While we enjoy programming, we feel there’s something to be said for solving a problem without needing to code; after all, no code means no bugs, right? With Power Map, a plug-in for Microsoft Excel Professional and Office 365 Professional, you can create clear geospatial visualizations of your data right from Excel. In many cases involving data visualization, Power Map eliminates the need for programming altogether, letting you work directly with your data in a spreadsheet and see relationships right on a map. Even as a debugging tool, this can be very helpful—you can take a slice of your data from a database, import it into Excel, visualize it, and draw conclusions without needing to write code to plot data on a map.