Quick Links to Social Explorer
- Demographic Profiles
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Social Explorer Profiles helps you find the right facts about your community and understand complex demographic and education profiles in your target market.
About Social Explorer
- Social Explorer This link opens in a new windowThe Trinity College Library provides access to Social Explorer, a user-friendly platform for creating maps and reports based on U.S. Census data. Save yourself some time and use it! Coverage begins with the 1790 Census and continues through the recent American Community Surveys. Whether you are interested in education, employment, health, urban migration, suburbanization, or income inequality and gentrification, Social Explorer is a great visualization tool for uncovering trends in the data and making comparisons over time.
NOTE: You will need to create an individual account in order to use all the database features. Use the link provided here to open Social Explorer. Click the "Create an Account" button at the top of the page. Use your Trinity e-mail address and whatever password you would like (it doesn't have to be the same as your password for other Trinity resources).
Social Explorer Tutorials
Social Explorer Training Modules
These training modules are built using the Social Explorer "Tell a Story" tool. These are great resources for patrons looking to build data visualizations for their course work and research. The "Tell a Story" tool allows you to easily share your research and coursework with others. Work your way through these training modules to quickly gain expertise in using Social Explorer.
- Data Categories and Sources: Social Explorer offers a wealth of historical and current data. This module explains how to find the data you are looking for.
- Layer Library: Social Explorer's Layer Library provides you with the tools to add more visual insights to your maps. Let's take a look at how to add map layers from the Layer Library.
- Comparison Views: Social Explorer allows you to compare variables by showing them side by side or swiping between two maps. Let's explore how to make map comparisons in Social Explorer.
- Geography Levels: Social Explorer allows you to examine datasets at a wide variety of geographic levels from city, county, and congressional districts, all the way down to school district, census tract, and block group. Let's find out more about geography levels on Social Explorer.
- Types of Visualization: Social Explorer can display data as a shaded area, dot density, or bubble map. Let's find out more about these types of visualizations.
- Multivariate Visualization: Social Explorer allows you to map multiple variables on a single map. Let's explore multivariate visualizations.
- Masking and Filtering: The masking tool allows you to focus on a specific map area by removing data from all the surrounding areas, while the data filtering tool allows you to filter geographies by data and identify locations based on your search.
- Annotations: Social Explorer offers several different types of annotations to enhance your map. These include place markers, hotspots, and a variety of drawing tools.
Source: Social Explorer Guide