Library Guides: SOC/CRIM 466: Solving Wicked Social Problems: Social Explorer

GIS Specialist

Tara Anthony

she/her/hers

Contact:

1A Central Pattee Library

814-863-5753

Subjects: Campus: University Park, Maps

Social Explorer Resources

Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Over 20,000 socio-economic indicators from 1790 to present. Include all decennial cenuses, American Community Surveys, and two religion surveys
Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present. It allows you to easily create visual maps and reports for a variety of variables.

Social Explorer: Map Example

Choose a desired application: example: United States Click Explore.
Select Indicator: Click the Change data button (top left) to select indicator.
Select Year: Choose Year from options.
Select Geography Level: Change level to appropriate geography.
Select Visualization Type: Depending on type of indicator: shaded area, bubbles, and dot density may be available.
- Adjust Color palette and breakpoints of classes.
Hover over areas to view values.
Screencapture or use the Export image option (top right) to save a png of the map.

Social Explorer: Demographic Profile Example

Choose Demographic Profiles from left side options.
Example: Harrisburg city, Pennsylvania
Review Demographics, Education, Economics, Households, and Housing tabs.

Library Databases

Data Planet This link opens in a new window
Includes multiple themes of data for the United States and internationally at the country and sub-division level (states, counties) organized across space and time. Enables the user to view a map and table of data, along with use multiple download options.
Online service that enables researchers to build statistical tables and charts from multiple sources in a single interface. Data includes a wide range of social and demographic data both from the US and international sources.
PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
Online mapping application contains over 15,000 indicators related to housing, education, mortgage origination, jobs and more. It’s fast, efficient, and captures data in visually powerful ways through custom maps, tables, and reports.
PolicyMap (www.policymap.com) is an online mapping application created by The Reinvestment Fund and contains over 15,000 indicators related to housing, education, mortgage originations, jobs and more. It’s fast, efficient and captures data in visually powerful ways through custom maps, tables and reports.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Over 20,000 socio-economic indicators from 1790 to present. Include all decennial cenuses, American Community Surveys, and two religion surveys
Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present. It allows you to easily create visual maps and reports for a variety of variables.
Proquest Digital Sanborn Maps This link opens in a new window
Provides digital access to thousands of large-scale maps of American towns and cities. Sanborn fire insurance maps are the most frequently consulted maps in libraries.
Provides digital access to thousands of large-scale maps of American towns and cities, searchable by address and GPS coordinates. Sanborn® fire insurance maps are the most frequently consulted maps in libraries. The maps chart the growth and development of thousands of America towns and cities across a century. Because of this scope, urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, and others will find the maps a valuable tool. ProQuest® Sanborn Maps Geo Edition™ allows for increased discovery and greater ease of use by making maps searchable by address and location. Examining temporal (time) changes is made even easier with tools that layer maps from different years on top of each other and over modern street, satellite, and hybrid layers via a Google™ map interface.
SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
create professional quality thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic, business and marketing data
Limited to 3 concurrent users. SimplyAnalytics enables non-technical users to quickly create professional quality thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic data (ie. census, consumer expenditure data) including estimates and projections, business data from D&B and the County Business Patterns Survey (CBP) and marketing data from EASI/MRI and Claritas PRIZM segments. SimplyAnlytics turns complex data into valuable information that is easily accessed through an innovative and user-friendly interface. Data is available at the State, Congressional District, County, City, ZIP Code, Census Tract and Block Group level in addition to custom trade area and can be exported as images, shapefiles or in tabular formats. Authorized PSU users must "Sign in as a guest" if they do not wish to register for a personal account. Personal accounts save your preferences, reports, and maps.