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Nursing: Community

This course guide is to address the needs of the Nursing 4660 course, particularly in regards to their community health assessment assignment.

Maps in Simply Analytics

1. To get to the maps section of your project, click the "Map" button on the right side of the screen.

 

Simply Analytics view project map

 

2. When you click "Map," you'll be taken to a screen like this: 

 

Simply Analytics initial map view

 

The shape in the map outlined in yellow is your census tract. To the right,you'll see the map's Legend which tells you what location you're looking at (For this example, that's CT002703, Nueces County, TX), what data you're lookig at ("% Delayed care due to cost, 2017 by Census Tracts," and then you'll see the different percentages of people who delayed getting health care due to the cost in 2017. In this example, you can se that in our census tract, that's between 2.39% and 2.45% of people in our census tract. 

 

3. Above the map is a column in blue text that says "% Delayed care due to cost, 2017," or whatever category of data you selected most recently. You can click on the little drop down arrow and choose to view a different category of data that you selected earlier.

 

Simply Analytics change data shown in map

 

Let's select "# All persons without a usual place of health care, 2017" and see what that map looks like. 

Simply Analytics view of map after changing plotted data

 

And we can tell from the Legend to the right that in this census tract, there are between 40 and 54 people who do not have a usual place of health care. 

 

4. Next to the drop down menu with data, is a drop down menu with locations. Since we didn't select any other locations at the beginning, our only options are this census tract or the USA. If we change the location to the USA, we can see the USA, divided into counties, showing the number of people in each county who doesn't have a usual place of health care. 

 

Simply Analytics national map divided by counties color coded by the number of people in the county without a usual place of health care

 

But let's stick with our census tract for now and look at the distribution of those without a usual place of health care by block. 

 

5. If we take the location in the drown down menu back to our census tract and look at the next option in blue letters, we see that it currently says "Census Tracts." That means that the map we're looking at is divided into census tracts. We have the option to break our track down even further into block groups. That view looks like this: 

Simply Analytics map of census tract, data plotted by block groups within tract

Now we can see, even more specifically, the distribution of people without a usual place of health care within our census tract.