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title: Group your data for your visualization
description: Grouping data for your visualizations will allow you to create maps with information that is more easily readable and accessible on your boards and panels
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# Group your data for your visualization

## Grouping data for your visualizations will allow you to create maps with information that is more easily readable and accessible on your boards and panels

#### Instructions

     To group your data you will need to fill in the "Group" line of your layer in the same way for each field.

     1. Double click in your **layer,** in the "**Layer Control**" \> Go to the "**Data tab**" \> Click on your **data** \> Fill the "**Group**" dialogue with the name you want \> Do the same with **the other information** you want to join.

![group\_data\_2](https://knowledge.cartovista.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/group_data_2.png?width=688&name=group_data_2.png)

![group\_data\_1](https://knowledge.cartovista.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/group_data_1.png?width=688&name=group_data_1.png)

     2. Add those fields into the **interactivy panel** (Info View & Data and Selection Table \> **Publish** your map \> You will see the information joined on your map on the **Info Tool Panel** and in the **Data Table Bottom Panel** too.

![group\_data\_infoview](https://knowledge.cartovista.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/group_data_infoview.png?width=297&name=group_data_infoview.png)

![group\_data\_table](https://knowledge.cartovista.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Knowledge%20Base%20Import/group_data_table.png?width=452&name=group_data_table.png)

You can create different groups with **different keywords** for your visualizations.

 

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