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Want to know the top 10 wealthiest ZIP codes in your state? How about the top 25 counties with the most elderly residents? Duke University students can now easily answer these questions and more with SimplyMap. Read more on Duke’s Library Hacks blog.
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Men’s Health magazine took a look this month at where our wireless habits are most out of control. Their methodology includes the use of SimplyMap:
First, we crunched data from SimplyMap on the percentage of households that own cellphones, as well as the percentage that own a lot of cellphones, i.e., four or more. We also figured in the percentage of tireless texters (Experian Consumer Research) and the number of wireless carriers per capita (U.S. Census Bureau). We finished by looking at data from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which tracks laws that ban calling — and texting — from behind the wheel.
SimplyMap’s ranking feature makes it easy to generate ranked lists of locations for any variable in the system.Whether you are looking for the wealthiest ZIP codes in your state, census tracts that spend the most on products for pets, or the top cities for recycling participation – it is all in SimplyMap!
Read the full article here.
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The 2009 Midwinter Meeting will be held in Denver, CO, from Jan 23–28, 2009.
The exhibits will be held Jan 23–26, 2009 at the Colorado Convention Center, located at 700 14th Street. The Exhibits Opening Ribbon-Cutting will be held Friday, January 23, at 5:15 pm preceeding the All-Conference Opening Reception on the Exhibit Floor.
Geographic Research is proud to exhibit at this year’s conference. Please visit us at booth #2451 to enter our raffle to win a new monitor and see a demonstration of SimplyMap.
The American Library Association (ALA) is the voice of America’s libraries. Generally held in January, the ALA Midwinter Meeting draws more than 10,000 leaders in the library and information industry for some 2,000 meetings and events. About 750 exhibits feature the latest in books, videos, computers and other materials and resources available to millions of library users.
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Michigan State University is offering their users a basic introduction to using SimplyMap. The 1.5 hour session will cover the basics of how to use SimplyMap to create maps and reports using demographic and business data. The training will be held on Friday, February 13, 2009 from 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM in the Business Library.
MSU also offers a free online guide designed to help new users with SimplyMap. The online guide includes how to create maps and reports, mapping points of interest, exporting maps for use in MS Word or PowerPoint, and suggestions for how to cite SimplyMap. This detailed webguide is free to the public.
MSU Training Class – February 13, 2009
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Excerpt from University of Iowa Library blog:
In your marketing class, you may be developing a marketing plan for a pre-made meals restaurant specializing in vegetarian menus in Chicagoland. How do you learn where the highest percentage of people who purchase Boca Burgers live in Cook County?
Maybe you are working with an elder services agency in Des Moines and would like to provide computer classes for senior citizens across the state, but the question is where would be the best place to hold the classes?
The answer is in SimplyMap. SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets you quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports, using the thousands of US demographic, business and marketing data variables.
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Geographic Research, Inc. (GRI) is pleased to sponsor the fourth annual American Collegiate Retailing Association’s Undergraduate Student Retail Analysis Competition. This is the second year GRI has sponsored the competition, which will focus on a location analysis for Port of Subs sandwich shops. Student teams will compete by selecting a new site for a Port of Subs franchise store and developing a business plan to support their site selection, using SimplyMap to assist in the analysis. Winners will be announced during ACRA’s Spring 2009 conference, schedule in Las Vegas, NV in May 2009. The competition is co-chaired by Doreen Burdalski of Albright College, Carol Kaufman-Scarborough of Rutgers University and Hong Yu of Ryerson University.
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The King County Library System in Washington State now subscribes to SimplyMap, and has published a brief review on their blog, Library Talk.
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Cornell’s Albert R. Mann Library has subscribed to SimplyMap. They provide some tips and access to the SimplyMap Quick Reference Guide, variable list, and some information on the EASI data methodology on their Business Wiki site.
Business at Mann Library – SimplyMap
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Doreen Harwood, Business Librarian from the University of Washington has developed a series of detailed tutorials on using SimplyMap. The tutorials, which are Flash-based and interactive, cover the following topics:
– Module 1: How to Register and Create a Personal Workspace
– Module 2: How to Select Geographic Locations
– Module 3: How to Build and Export Research Items
– Module 4: How to Build and Export Image Items
– Module 5: How to Develop Data and Image Items with More Geographically Specific Detail
– Module 6: How to Rank SimplyMap Data (See Module 9 for a simpler ranking method)
– Module 7: How to Find and Use MRI Consumer Survey Data
– Module 8: How to Edit the SimplyMap Legend
– Module 9: How to Rank Data Using SimplyMap Ranking Feature
Thank you to Doreen for developing this valuable resource and making it available to the SimplyMap community!
University of Washington SimplyMap Tutorials
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A team of librarians at Drexel University has developed a detailed poster to introduce SimplyMap as a new research tool for the student body. The poster was launched on Drexel Research Day in April 2008, and is available as a free download from the Drexel Library website. It includes detailed information on how to use SimplyMap, including examples of research and business questions that can be answered with SimplyMap. Thank you to Jay Bhatt, Tara Martin, Larry Millikin, Josh Roberts, Tim Siftar, and Beth Ten-Have for creating this innovative new tool!
Drexel University Library SimplyMap Poster
