How to create a geographical heat map in excel using Formulas - excel

I am trying to generate a heat map from given data. i Need to analyze where participants came from and how far they were from the event. i Am trying to visualize this in excel and so far have been unsuccessful.
So far I've tried creating each column into a Formula so that I could generate the map via a YouTube tutorial but haven't been able to get it to work. There are international Zip Codes which I feel might be throwing off the map.
I was attempting to use the OFFSET Function to make the data linear and more easier to analyze
=OFFSET(Table1[[#Headers];[Country]];1;0;COUNTA(Sheet1!$A:$A)-1
Any suggestions on the best way to do this in excel? Or how to fix the code so it fits for the analysis. I'll post a bit of the data below.
"Customer Id","City","Region Code","Postal Code","Country","Product Membership Description"
"123","Jacksonville","FL","32256","United States","Metro Magazine;NEWS-MET-Express"
"456","HARTFORD","KY","423471178","United States","Government Fleet;Metro Magazine;Work Truck Magazine;NEWS-GF-Enews;NEWS-GF-EquipmentGuide;NEWS-GF-TopNews;NEWS-MET-Blogs;NEWS-MET-Express;NEWS-MET-Rail;NEWS-MET-Trending;Z3 Metro Transit Accessibility - 6193;NEWS-WT-Utility"
"789","TALLAHASSEE","FL","32301","United States","Metro Magazine;NEWS-MET-Express"

So, just played with your data and set this up. You can expand as you wish, use the city or the region code or post code as you wish.
You can decide what distance data you want to use, perhaps circles of distance from your location may be interesting...

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