FLOW MAP in Power BI | Insightful Map Visualizations Made Simple

Power BI flow map let you visualize movement on a map when you have “source to target” information in your data. In this video I show how to quickly create insightful map visualizations in Power BI. This custom visual is great if you want to visualize flow in Power BI, for example: shipments volume between locations, migrations flows, or flight routes. I go over all of the key features and best practices so that you can get the most out of this custom visual. Enjoy!

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0:00 Intro
0:32 Creating a flow map
2:10 Visualisation styles for the flow map
3:20 Map elements
3:57 Map controls
4:41 Map legend
7:31 Line width
8:36 Line bubbles
9:11 Tooltip
11:08 Advanced flow map options
12:14 Using latitude and longitude
13:31 End

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[jayasreecarey]

Thank you ! Very informative. My requirement needs multiple locations which are in the same excel row, to be mapped as row. Can you pls provide some inputs ?

[byrongdrums]

Great video! Thank you so much!

How could I do a flow map if I just have Origin latitude, longitude and Destination latitude, longitude but not Origin and Destination (because it's internal move between one city)?

[karlaksixtos]

Hello!! thank you very much for the video has been very helpful, do you know how can we pull the list of cities that were unlocatable and how to fix them? thanks!

[BestOfFutebol]

great. dear, i'm facing an issue i've never seen reported yet but i'm pretty sure you know how to deal with it.. imagine you didnt filter london. all circuits appearing.. but the more dense cities are covering the less dense ones... how can you switch the order and turn less dense to the top? :)

[RadioAndroidRadioheadTribute]

Great Visual and great tutorial!! Is it possible to mark (in a different way, i.e. bubble and X) both origin and destination in the same map? thanks a lot

[philipposorfanos]

Hi Bas. Is it possible to click in a route and update the results of an accompanying table?

[ahmeddabboussi]

Great tutorial, I just finished my first flow map. I want to take it to the next level and show multiple locations for the same flight (for example a flight that goes from NY to London to Paris) is that feasible ?

[jkgkngp]

Would be amazing but cannot put in lat and long because defaults to count of lat and count of long. Did all the setup in PowerBi but still does not function corretly. Wish is would work because your tutorial is amazing. If you figure out how to make lat and long input work would love to see that tutorial!

[Georgvg]

What about transit hub ? For example LHR - DXB- SYD? Any option?

[justinbove]

Wow great tutorial and flow map visual! I have one issue of not being able to select individual colors for each of the 'airlines' in your example... My visualization tool only has the option for a single color. Any idea why this may be? Thanks!

[deepakgautam]

How can I use start latitude and longitude along with end latitude and longitude?

[tonykuiper]

Is it possible to visualise a multi-hop flight? ie London to Dubai to Melbourne?

[guruyuvi]

Hey Bas, is there any way we can add nodes for both source and destination? Meaning, bubble for showing both source and destination

[martinpratto]

Amazing dashboard!! i love airline analysis, have you another dashboard for airlines or some courses about it?. Thanks for your time!!

[AdelaideGeraldine]

Hi, I'm having trouble when exporting this file. I tried to export this file into pdf or power point version but the maps does not showed up when using the additional flow map. Any idea why this may be? Thank you!

[brianchang]

Great tutorial, but I have an issue. My data set only lists countries and not cities. So when I place the origin and destination countries in the origin and destination fields of the Flow Map custom visual, there are no results. Am I the only one with this issue? What should I do?

[marcing]

Great video as usual. For me (customer) the issue with this Visualization is not a Power BI visual certified. Do you know if there is any certified visual that has this flow option ?

[yeraldo]

Wow really great visual !!

I have issue with the Cities though. I have a logistics company in USA and let's take for example the city Toledo.

When I plug in the Destination Cities instead of showing me the city Toledo from Ohio it shows me Toledo from Spain.

How can I fix it to select the Cities from USA and not somewhere else.

Thanks for the information!

[robertosalinas]

Do you know why is not possible to Specify Individually the color for measures ?

[lucyagyimeh]

is it possible adding custom tooltips in flow maps, to get the popup effects