Create your first map

Vizualist Maps is a powerful visualization tool designed with usability in mind. With just a couple of clicks, whip up a map that stands out from all the clutter, grabs attention, and instantly tells your story. Let's get started.

Start working on your first map.

Select the Maps tab on the Vizualist dashboard.
Click the add button on the right side of the dashboard page, and this will launch the Map Wizard window.
Enter the title of your project.
Select one of the base maps and click next.
Upload your CSV data via the drag and drop method or click on Browse.

To render your map correctly, your dataset needs to contain a unique column with geographic reference (e.g. state-level or county-level FIPS code for US, ISO alpha-3 for World, geography level unique name) and at least one value column.

FIPS codes are numbers that uniquely identify geographic areas. The number of digits in FIPS codes vary depending on the level of geography. State-level FIPS codes have two digits, county-level FIPS codes have five digits of which the first two are the FIPS code of the state to which the county belongs.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest.
Click Next.
Select Geo columns to connect the data.

Select a column from your dataset and match it with the one from Basemap on the left. Areas that don’t match will be greyed out on the map.

After you connect data you will see the percent of successfully connected data
Click Create.