Getting Started in the Map View
Seek is set up as a workspace with a Display Panel on the left and a Control Panel on the right.
Your selection of regions and data via the Control Panel determines the presentation of data in the Display Panel. To use the Map view, you must first select regions and data.*
*Note that if you’ve already selected regions and data in another view, your selections will carry over. You can always change or add to your selections by returning to the Regions and Data modals in the Control Panel.
What You Can Learn from the Map View
The Map view is one of four different views - or ways of looking at your data and region selections. The others are Table, Distribution, and Relationships.
The Map view is ideal when you want to find and review spatial patterns in your selections. With it, you can answer questions about the socio-demographic makeup of particular regions, as well as how specific social, economic, and environmental factors are spatially distributed.
Using the Map View
Single & Bivariate Maps
You can explore single or bivariate maps in the Map view.
By default, the map will show a single variable from among your already selected data. You can change the data shown on the map by clicking on the arrow in the indicator box below the map legend. Select the radio button for a new indicator.
View a bivariate map by checking the box Bivariate Mode in the Control Panel. Once selected, you will see two boxes below the map legend: Variable A and Variable B. Click the arrow in each box and select the radio button for the indicator you’d like to show on the map.
Region Details
Once your map is set up, click on a region to view Region Details, which include:
The region’s ranking among all regions for the selected indicator(s)
If you’re viewing a bivariate map: a scatter plot showing the correlation between the two selected variables for the larger region, with the selected sub-region highlighted as a blue dot (the other sub-regions are green dots).
