Men’s Health magazine has published a ranked list to help readers find the cities where Americans are the saddest and where they are living with big smiles on their faces. As they note, “we aren’t shrinks, so our diagnosis is more statistical than psychological.” Editors calculated suicide rates (CDC) and unemployment rates (Bureau of Labor…
We will be exhibiting at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting & Exhibition in Dallas this January. Visit us at booth 2513 for a demonstration and to have all your SimplyMap questions answered. We will also be raffling off a new computer monitor – will you be our next winner? Midwinter Meeting & Exhibition January…
Men’s Health magazine has once again published rankings that include research from SimplyMap. They ranked the most (and least) educated cities in America. In addition to several other sources of data, Men’s Health editors tapped SimplyMap to find out how many households have student loans or take adult-education courses. Hint: the folks in Plano, TX…
Geographic Research will be exhibiting and presenting during a vendor showcase session at the upcoming North Carolina Library Association (NCLA) Biennial Conference, October 4-7, 2011 in Hickory, NC. Attendees can visit the SimplyMap booth or attend our vendor showcase to learn about some of the powerful new features included with SimplyMap 2.0, including: * Completely…
We will be exhibiting at the Special Library Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia and the American Library Association conference in New Orleans later this month. Come and visit the Geographic Research booth, enter to win a new computer monitor, and get a first look at recently-released SimplyMap 2.0, redesigned from the ground up! 2011 SLA…
Kenneth Johnson of the Science, Industry, and Business Library at the New York Public Library recently provided a “boot camp” on the library’s market research resources to budding entrepreneurs participating in FastTrac® NewVenture™. After several weeks, he was eager to learn the extent to which these folks used the available resources to create a pitch…
The GRI team is very excited to announce the launch of SimplyMap 2.0! Completely redesigned, it is now easier than ever to access data and create professional quality thematic maps and reports. We have been working hard on many improvements – too many to list them all, but here are a few of the most…
The GRI team would like to congratulate Barbara Van Hooser from Tennessee State University, our iPad 2 raffle prize winner from the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) show in Philadelphia last month. Congratulations Barbara!
Men’s Health magazine decided to crown one town America’s Most Socially Networked City, and has generated quite a buzz in the process. Their survey examined the number of Facebook and LinkedIn users per capita, followed by overall Twitter usage (NetProspex). They also looked at traffic generated by the major social networks, including Myspace, Friendster, Reddit,…
The GRI team is looking forward to exhibiting at ACRL 2011 at the PA Convention Center in Philadelphia, March 30 – April 1, 2011. Every other year, ACRL offers its premier professional development event devoted exclusively to the needs of academic and research librarians. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of…
