A: The solution you seek can be achieved with Microsoft Power Map—a free, add-in utility included with Office 365 subscriptions (a preview version is also available for stand-alone versions of Excel ...

Although you don't have to format your data as an Excel table, doing so will make life easier if you add more rows or columns, and Excel generally reads data formatted as a table ...

Although many Power BI functions are also available in Microsoft Excel with the add-on Power Pivot, Power Query, Power View and Power Map tools, Power BI is easier to use and more intuitive.