Tableau Tutorial: Maps and Shape Files / Spatial Files for Geocoding

Here's a tutorial showing how to use shape files in Tableau using Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Nigeria, Africa as an example. Let us know if this tutorial was useful for you and what you used it to create.
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Key Points Covered
Quick explanation of polygons and how they relate to maps.
Get required shape files (.shp and others)
Create a nice map viz in Tableau
Example data - Local Government Areas in Nigeria.
Links
LGA Shape file in Nigeria africaopendata...
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[@OreApampa]

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[@emeralduchechukwuhenry2126]

Thank you for this video, it just solved my map problem

[@d.f.e.insights6498]

This video really helped me out in getting the file for the map and inserting it into Tableau. Life saver here...thank you!

[@OreApampa]

You're welcome

[@apaumichael954]

Hi @ore apampa, good video. With ur problem at the end, it can be solved by creating a dual axis geographical map, and working on the details and opacity of the lga map. Hope it helps 😊

[@OreApampa]

Ah I hadn't thought of this at the time. Thanks for suggesting it!

[@apaumichael954]

@@OreApampa u welcome

[@michaelfajemilehin1793]

thank you so very much

[@OreApampa]

You are very welcome

[@asifgeneral]

Thanks of the amazing video. How can we have custom breaks in legend. For ex. less than 1000 one color, 2000-3999 one color, 4000-5999 one color and so on. I have a data for Indian states and GDP per capita. Thanks

[@OreApampa]

Hi Asif! I'm glad you found it useful! One way to do this is to create a calculated field that returns a different piece of text for the three range criteria then use this new field as the pill to drag into the colour box.
For example:
Imagine you have a POPULATION field in your data. Let's create a new calculated field called "pop_colour" with the formula:
If POPULATION

[@asifgeneral]

@@OreApampa Thanks a lot! It worked. Except for one problem. When I hover my cursor over the region, I am seeing the grouped value (2000-4999) instead of the exact value, say 3446. Not sure why.