Tutorials

Tutorials for Using SimplyMap

 

SimplyMap  UW restricted
This Internet-based mapping application enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Users can select, sort and compare data across multiple geographic locations and build custom reports that can be exported to a spreadsheet. Data is provided by Easy Analytic Software, Inc. (EASI) and includes all 2000, current estimates, and 5 year forecast census data for all geographies: Census Block-Groups, Census Tracts, ZIP Codes, Cities, Counties, States, and the entire United States.  (Note: Users will be asked to create a personal workspace the first time they log-in to SimplyMap).

The Tutorials for using SimplyMap are provided in 6 Modules:

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

Mapping two or more variables.  To map two or more variables, you will need to develop a query.  SimplyMap provides a tutorial of their own on combining variables into queries. Their tutorials are available at the top right of the opening page for SimplyMap.

 

Guide Developed by:
Doreen Harwood
Business Librarian
email: dharwood@uwb.edu
Phone: 425-352-5442

 

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