How to Make Bubble Maps in Illustrator (2-minute Tutorial)

Learn to make the map-with-circles data visualization called a “bubble map” in 2 minutes flat (works for scatterplots with different sized circles, too). If you run into problems or want to know a little bit more about every single step, I have a fifteen-minute version of the same tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSdbF...

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because all my other videos about 15
minutes are we are now going to do this
and how is Obama is map where you have
circles that represent things like
cities that are sized according to
something like population so this is a
big city gets a global mobile the first
off you know SVG map which is the shape
of California right here over to
underline out sooner city locations are
you decide on a different layer 907
Cisco's here though is there
etcetera and then finally you need your
cities and your population so let's get
started we're gonna make a new layer on
top of all of these layers and we're
going to call it
City bubbles now we're going to make a
pie chart which seems absurd but when
you paste in these values instead of
making a single quote chart you come up
with a circle for every single city are
american it sized correctly we're gonna
make these funds a little bit smaller so
we can see what the city's our
organization on the image and we're
gonna move all the cities to where they
belong so is there
San Diego's their San Francisco over
here
president gonna make sure you don't
ground so what angers you have to
actually grabbed the black parts and
very good so small we have to click and
drag and then head on over to resize
these but first I need to object on
group so they start being a grass and
was gonna keep on grouping and so we
can't group any lower rates so now we're
going to delete the city names are going
to leave this legend up here we're gonna
select each and every one of the used
circles of the same time we're going to
object transform transform each and
we're going to scale them each i'd say
three hundred and twenty percent there
we go we have beautiful bubbles make the
model transparent so we can select the
entire layer
40% and there we go we are done