How to Make Bubble Maps in Illustrator (2-minute Tutorial)
How to Make Bubble Maps in Illustrator (2-minute Tutorial)
Transcript
all right because all of my other bubble
map videos are about 15 minutes long we
are now gonna do this in a minute and a
half so bubble map is map where you have
circles that represent things like the
cities that are sized according to
something like population so this is a
big city it's a big bubble this is a
small city has a small bubble all right
here's what you need first off you need
an SVG map which is the shape of
California right here number two you
need an underlying map so you know where
your city locations are you just hide
that on a different layer
I know San Francisco's here Oh is there
etc 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
gonna call it city bubbles now we are
going to make a pie chart which seems
absurd but when you paste in these
values instead of making a single pie
chart you come up with a circle for
every single city on here and it's sized
correctly we're gonna make these fonts a
little bit smaller so we can see what
the cities are we're gonna turn on the
image and we're gonna move all the
cities to where they belong so la is
there san diego's there San Francisco
over here Fresno I've gotta make sure
you don't grab those weights anchors you
have to actually grab the black part and
for Eureka it's so small we have to
click and drag and then drag it on over
beautiful so now we need to resize these
but first we'll need to object on group
so they stop being a graph and we're
just going to keep on grouping until we
can't ungroup any more great so now
we're gonna delete a few city names
we're going to delete this legend up
here we're gonna select each and every
one of these circles all at the same
time we go to object transform transform
each and we're going to scale them each
by let's say 320 percent and there we go
we have beautiful bubbles if we want to
make them a little transparent we can
select the entire layer go down to 40%
and there we go
we are done
map videos are about 15 minutes long we
are now gonna do this in a minute and a
half so bubble map is map where you have
circles that represent things like the
cities that are sized according to
something like population so this is a
big city it's a big bubble this is a
small city has a small bubble all right
here's what you need first off you need
an SVG map which is the shape of
California right here number two you
need an underlying map so you know where
your city locations are you just hide
that on a different layer
I know San Francisco's here Oh is there
etc 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
gonna call it city bubbles now we are
going to make a pie chart which seems
absurd but when you paste in these
values instead of making a single pie
chart you come up with a circle for
every single city on here and it's sized
correctly we're gonna make these fonts a
little bit smaller so we can see what
the cities are we're gonna turn on the
image and we're gonna move all the
cities to where they belong so la is
there san diego's there San Francisco
over here Fresno I've gotta make sure
you don't grab those weights anchors you
have to actually grab the black part and
for Eureka it's so small we have to
click and drag and then drag it on over
beautiful so now we need to resize these
but first we'll need to object on group
so they stop being a graph and we're
just going to keep on grouping until we
can't ungroup any more great so now
we're gonna delete a few city names
we're going to delete this legend up
here we're gonna select each and every
one of these circles all at the same
time we go to object transform transform
each and we're going to scale them each
by let's say 320 percent and there we go
we have beautiful bubbles if we want to
make them a little transparent we can
select the entire layer go down to 40%
and there we go
we are done