SimplyAnalytics changes to our datasets & concurrent users

 

SimplyAnalytics changes in 2021

1. NC LIVE didn't renew this (despite an offered 0% price increase) so UNCG now pays for all of the SA datasets on our own.
2. Given our tight budgets, we went from 20 concurrent users to merely 3. [But we can email SA support to ask for enough seats to cover an entire class when we are teaching using this.] [Jo and Steve's usage don't count toward the 3 users (SA now allows two "super-users" per campus.)]
3. Compared to our SA datasets via NC LIVE, we no longer have access to MRI/Mediamark (Simmons now owns MRI and so those datasets will be combined soon) or the historical Census data (use Social Explorer for that).
4. Instead, we added Nielsen's Scarborough Local Insights dataset. This survey includes questions asked only in certain metros. For example, in Greensboro, people are asked if they have flown in the last 12 months from GSO, CLT, or RDU, or if they have attended games at the Hornets, Swarm, Panthers, Duke basketball, etc., or which of the local hospitals have been visited. There's also a long set of questions asked of people in all the metros covered (like in SimmonsLocal).

--Steve