Delete the table on the report page -- On the top left, click Add a chart -- Under Google Maps, click Filled map.
The map won't display yet. You'll need to add the field that uniquely identifies each location first.
The map should look like this:
The map's default color metric is Record Count. Let’s choose a more interesting metric.
On the right, under Color metric, choose percent_income_spent_on_rent. You could drag over any other metric of interest, such as median_income or median_rent if you want to explore that data instead.
You can also provide viewers with a better tooltip by changing the Tooltip dimension.
You can customize the appearance of the map in the STYLE tab. For example, you could increase the fill opacity to 80% and change the color gradient from blue to red. This gives us our final DC map! Now we can add a pages to the dashboard to show data for Virginia and Maryland.