Starting with the release of Strategy ONE (March 2024), dossiers are also known as dashboards.
Use location data to visualize trends geographically with the out-of-the-box Geospatial Service map (Mapbox).
Minimum Strategy version: 10.11
Requirements:
Data obtained from FBI's 2013 study on Crime
A Geospatial Service map contextualizes information based on geographical data, utilizing Mapbox to dynamically change the view as users zoom in and out. With the use of layers, the visualization can display different information at different zoom levels.
In our example, we plotted the FBI's reported crime rates for thousands of municipalities in the US. The Geospatial Service visualization is a good choice here because our dataset contains location-specific metrics, broken apart by a geographical attribute, and we would like to explore trends across a wider-spread geographic area.
One important feature of the Geospatial Service map is Clustering. Clustering allows dossier authors to group individual location points by their proximity to one another, thereby indicating areas where data is more dense. We can see that the data points are clustered as we move from the "State" to "City" zoom level; this Clustering suggests to the user that zooming in on a given cluster will reveal more data points, and thus more insight on that location.
Another key feature of the Geospatial Service map is the use of Layers: as the user zooms through a given visualization, each layer offers different information. In our example, the outermost zoom level (Country) indicates that our information focuses on the United States. As we zoom into the second layer (States), we can see the name of the state, as well as that state's overall estimated violent crime rate for 2013. This is indicated by both the coloring of the state and the Tooltip when hovering. Finally, we zoom in further to the third layer (City, State) to see information on the violent crime rate for each individual city reported. The color of the marker indicates the relative severity of the city crime rate, while the Tooltip shown by hovering over each city provides specifics of the data. Thus, it is easy to determine, using the zoom tool, which cities and states have relatively higher violent crime rates.
The Geospatial Service Map is a great way to visualize how information is impacted by location, from specific coordinates to entire countries. Mapbox’s dynamic map tools combined with Strategy’s data resources makes for a powerful, insightful, and visually appealing way to make data-driven decisions with location data.
Also check out this map displaying confirmed unprovoked shark attacks 1580 to present.
Data obtained from https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/maps/world/
Analyze using Mapbox by downloading MicroStrategy Desktop!
Download the .mstr files to check out the "Geospatial Example FBI Data" and "Mapbox Example Shark Attacks" dossiers.
