31 May 2021

Power BI report with ArcGIS map: COVID-19 in the Netherlands

 

#76: Power BI report with ArcGIS map: "COVID-19 in the Netherlands"

Power BI has several types of maps, and one of them is the ArcGIS Map, which I used in a new report "COVID-19 in the Netherlands", see FIG.1. 

Update 6/6/2021: I made a new Power BI report for COVID-19 in USA, which also uses a ArcGIS-map, and includes also a video of the report, see:

https://worktimesheet2014.blogspot.com/2021/06/77-power-bi-report-with-arcgis-map.html

https://youtu.be/se5pLNCdo0M

FIG.1: Power BI report with ArcGIS Map, combining COVID-19 data and (demo) employee-address data

ArgGIS is GIS-software of company ESRI. The ArcGIS-map in Power BI is both available for ArcGIS-users as for people without a ArcGIS-license (as is my case), although the latter group has can't use all map-features.
NB:
-I read here that ESRI offers a free (trial) of ArcGIS-Online to companies that use their maps to fight COVID-19.
-The famous COVID-19 dashboard of the Johns Hopkins University is also made with ArcGIS


ESRI Netherlands offers maps of the Netherlands with (actual) COVID-19 data, e.g. the map "#Diagnosed per 100K inhabitants in the last 7 days per municipality", see:
https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=aafffb2776194e0db063b7b7e751997d
This map I used as a reference layer (see here how to do this) for my Power BI report, see FIG.2.

FIG.2: Power BI report with ArcGIS Map which includes a reference-layer with COVID-19 data


If you click on a municipality, you can see the related ArcGIS-data (e.g. for municipality Zwijndrecht: it has 44K inhabitants, and in the last 7 days, 93 (new) COVID-19 cases (Diagnosed):



FIG.3: Power BI report with ArcGIS Map with card showing Municipality-data and COVID-19 data that is included in the map.

 

On top of this COVID-19 map layer (municipalities filled with color brown) is a layer with the 'actual' data: the number of employees (of a fictitious company) who live in a certain municipality (the green 'bubbles').
NB: in my previous post I had a similar map-report, made with Report Builder (see FIG.4 of that post), but creating that one, was much more work as I had to collect and transform the COVID-19 data myself, and also configure the shape-map, while with the ArcGIS-map, this comes 'out of the box'.

And as is always the case in a Power BI report, the map and other widgets in the report are interconnected, so if you filter e.g. in the bar-chart on Utrecht (municipality where 18 employees live), automatically the map zooms in to this region:


FIG.4: Filtering chart > zooming map

I also made a mobile version for my report (which does not have the bar-chart of the desktop-version, to adapt to the (smaller) screen-size of a mobile):


FIG.5: Power BI report on mobile


Note that my map (the brown reference-layer with COVID-19 data) is the same as that in the COVID-19 dashboard of  ESRI NL:


FIG.6: ESRI NL COVID-19 dashboard 

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/ea064047519040469acb8da05c0f100d


References


*Power BI:

ArcGIS Maps for Power BI

Microsoft Power BI: Deep dive into the ESRI Map Visual in Power BI 

At Home with Power BI - ArcGIS maps

Mapbox v ArcGIS v Power BI Maps v Azure Maps. Which one should I use in Power BI?

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-public-agencies-keep-communities-informed-on-covid-19-with-power-bi/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/sample-covid-19-us

 

*ESRI ArcGIS

https://coronavirus-resources.esri.com/

https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcuser/johns-hopkins-covid-19-dashboard/

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/85320e2ea5424dfaaa75ae62e5c06e61
 

*ESRI NL

https://nlcovid-19-esrinl-content.hub.arcgis.com/


*GIS

Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Dan Scollon at TEDx Redding


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