Quick Tips: Mapping

Inspired by some recent support desk questions, this week’s SimplyMap report will provide some useful tips and tricks to help make the most out of your maps. Let’s get started!

First, let’s take a look at the map that we will apply changes to. This is a map showing Median Household Income for the city of Chicago:

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At this level of zoom and geography, your map will display by ZIP Codes. If you’d like to see a more granular map, select a smaller geography from the View Data By dropdown in your map legend. The map below displays the data by census tract:

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Exploring SimplyMap Data – Organic Food Use

In this week’s SimplyMap report we take a look into the SimmonsLOCAL dataset to determine which cities in America have the highest percentage of residents who consume organic food products. Let’s jump right in.

Before we rank the variable, % FOOD – GENERAL | ORGANIC FOODS | ORGANIC FOODS – HH USES? | YES, 2014 let’s do a quick search for “organic” to see how many related variables are in SimplyMap. Open the Variables tab, click on Search, and type in “organic”.

You will then get a list of all variables in SimplyMap that contain the keyword organic.

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Exploring SimplyMap Data – Median Rent

In a previous blog entry, we highlighted the benefits of having multiple years of data available for the same variable. This allows users to identify trends over time. Keeping with the same theme, this week we’ll take a look at how the median rent has changed between 2000, 2010 and 2015.

Let’s take a quick look at the US and move on to some cities we suspect may show a marked increase.

First, create a Standard Report and navigate through the median rent variable at this path: Census Data » Housing » Rent.

Next, hover over the variable and use the Select Variable Year option to select the years 2000, 2010 and 2015. Picture below for reference.

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