Start at Vancouver’s Open Data Portal: http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/index.htm
- Download Business Licenses
- Select all, Data, Sort, Business Type
- Select “Liquor Retail Store”
- Cut and Paste in a new Spreadsheet (make sure to also copy labels)
- Save
- Clean:
- Delete all columns except: Business Name, Business Subtype, number of employees, Latitude and Longitude.
- Delete records with missing Lat/Long. Delete records with missing Business Type.
- Sort by Business Subtype
- Edit, Add Column. Name= Business Type Code, Type=number
- Add numbers for each unique Business Type (ie, Beer and Wine =1, Beer only =2, etc)
- Save
OPEN IN FUSION TABLES
- Create a fusion Table, add File
- Label and link to data
- Open Map and create different markers for the Biz Types
- Change Feature style
- Buckets
- Range 1-5
- Change numbers for range and choose icon for each
- Edit the Cards to delete Latitude and Longitude
- in Change info window