How to Create Geocharts
TLDRIn this informative session, Patrick Wilson, a solution architect with expertise in AI, demonstrates how to integrate Geo charts into an immersive dashboard. He showcases a Seattle Telco Market customer metric dashboard, highlighting the use of geospatial data to visualize building signal quality and customer satisfaction. Wilson adeptly guides viewers through the process of adding various geospatial elements such as Point Maps, Line Maps, and Chloropleth maps, emphasizing the importance of cross-filtering and color scale locking for detailed analysis. His approach enables a comprehensive understanding of infrastructure needs for improving signal quality and customer satisfaction.
Takeaways
- 📊 Patrick Wilson, a solution architect, demonstrates how to create Geo charts in an immersive dashboard.
- 🏙️ The dashboard displays information on buildings in a specific market area, including aggregated Net Promoter Scores and building types.
- 🌐 Geo charts add geospatial context to the data, enhancing the understanding of signal quality and customer metrics.
- 🖼️ Options for Geo charts include Point Maps, Line Maps, Chloropleth Maps, and Contours.
- 🏢 A Chloropleth Map is chosen to represent building signal quality using a color range for Max Signal values.
- 🎨 The color palette can be adjusted to better visualize data, with opacity changes for layer transparency.
- 🔍 Pop-up values can be customized to display relevant metrics when hovering over map elements.
- 🔒 Locking the color scale range allows for consistent color segmentation and values across different zoom levels.
- 🛤️ Additional layers, such as a Line Map representing fiber backbone, can be added for further geospatial analysis.
- 📍 Point Maps can be used to overlay additional data, like US Towers, and can be customized for size, shape, and color.
- 🔍 Combining multiple data types in a single Geo chart enables detailed proximity and infrastructure analysis for signal quality improvement decisions.
Q & A
What is Patrick Wilson's role in the presentation?
-Patrick Wilson is a Solution Architect with expertise in AI, and he is presenting how to build Geo charts in an immersive dashboard.
What type of dashboard is being discussed in the presentation?
-The dashboard discussed is a Seattle Telco Market customer metric dashboard that displays information about buildings in a specific market area, including aggregated Net Promoter Scores and building types.
Why is there a need to add a Geo chart to the dashboard?
-A Geo chart is needed to provide geospatial context to the data, which was previously lacking, allowing for a better understanding of the spatial relationships between buildings and their signal quality.
What types of Geo charts can be added to the dashboard?
-The types of Geo charts that can be added include Point Maps, Line Maps, Chloropleth Maps, and Contours.
How does the chloropleth map represent signal quality?
-The chloropleth map uses a color range representation to indicate Max signal for each building, with lighter colors signifying better signal quality and darker colors indicating poorer signal quality.
What is the purpose of adjusting the layer opacity in the Geo chart?
-Adjusting the layer opacity allows for more transparency or less, depending on the user's preference, which can help in better visualizing the data underneath or alongside other layers.
How does the pop-up value enhance the user experience in the Geo chart?
-The pop-up value provides additional information when hovering over a specific area in the map view, offering insights into the data points without having to navigate away from the chart.
What is the benefit of cross-filtering in geocharts?
-Cross-filtering allows for interaction between the Geo chart and other charts in the dashboard, so that changes in the map extent result in corresponding changes in the data aggregation and response in other charts, enhancing data analysis.
How can the color scale range be locked to maintain consistency when zooming in the Geo chart?
-By locking the color scale range using the chart bar chart at the bottom left, the same values and color segmentation are retained even when the map is zoomed in or out, ensuring consistency in the data representation.
What additional data types and layers can be added to the Geo chart for further analysis?
-Additional data types such as Line Maps (for fiber backbone representation) and Point Maps (for cell towers) can be added to the Geo chart. These layers can be customized with different colors, opacities, and pop-up information for enhanced geospatial analysis.
How does the combination of different data types in a single Geo chart aid in infrastructure investment decisions?
-By combining data from various sources in a single Geo chart, it becomes easier to perform proximity analysis and identify areas with poor signal quality and low Net Promoter Scores, guiding decisions on where to increase infrastructure investment for improvements.
Outlines
📊 Introduction to Geo Charts in Dashboard
Patrick Wilson, a solution architect with expertise in AI, introduces the process of creating Geo charts within a dashboard. The example used is a Seattle Telco Market customer metric dashboard that displays aggregated net promoter scores for buildings in a specific market area, differentiated by type (commercial or residential). The script explains the current lack of geospatial context and the goal to add a Geo chart to enhance this.
🌐 Adding a Chloroplath Map to Visualize Signal Quality
The script details the steps to add a chloroplath map to the dashboard, selecting a buildings layer as the source and using a Geo column called 'geom' as the measure. It explains how to differentiate buildings based on Max signal, which provides a color range representation of signal quality. The script also covers adjusting the layer opacity and adding pop-up values for more information when hovering over the map.
🔄 Cross Filtering and Locking Color Scale Range
This part of the script discusses the cross-filtering capabilities of geocharts, allowing for interaction with other charts in the dashboard. It explains how changes in the map extent affect the data aggregation, and how to lock the color scale range using a chart bar to maintain consistent color segmentation and values when zooming in or out.
🛠️ Adding Layers for Fiber Backbone and US Towers
The script continues by guiding through the addition of a line map representing the fiber backbone in downtown Seattle, colored by carrier. It then describes the process of adding a point map for US Towers, adjusting point size and shape, and coloring by type. The integration of these three data types into a single Geo chart view is emphasized, highlighting the ability to perform proximity analysis and identify areas requiring infrastructure investment for improved signal quality and net promoter scores.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Solution Architect
💡Geo Charts
💡Immersive Dashboard
💡Net Promoter Score (NPS)
💡Building Signal
💡Chloropleth Map
💡Max Signal
💡Layer Opacity
💡Cross Filtering
💡Fiber Backbone
💡Point Map
Highlights
Patrick Wilson, a solution architect, is presenting on building Geo charts in dashboards.
The focus is on a Seattle Telco Market customer metric dashboard.
The dashboard shows information about buildings with aggregated net promoter scores.
Differentiation is made between commercial and customer residential buildings.
Geospatial context is lacking in the current dashboard.
A Geo chart is added to provide geospatial context.
A chloroplath map is chosen to represent building signal quality.
Building footprints are represented with a Geo column called 'geom'.
Max signal is used for color range representation of signal quality.
Color palette and layer opacity can be adjusted for visual preferences.
Pop-up values can be included for interactive data insights.
Geo charts enable cross-filtering with other charts in the dashboard.
The color scale range can be locked for consistent value segmentation.
A line map of fiber backbone in downtown Seattle is added for analysis.
The fiber backbone layer is overlaid onto the Geo chart for proximity analysis.
A point map of US towers is added for further geospatial data.
Three different types of data are conflated into a single chart view.
The analysis aims to improve signal quality and net promoter scores through infrastructure investment.
