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Social Explorer Posts First Tweet! by Sydney Beveridge
Social Explorer has started tweeting! Click here to follow us for all the demographic action on our blog and Facebook Page.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Friday, October 9, 2009
New Feature: 2008 Data Now Available on Social Explorer by Sydney Beveridge
Earlier this month, Social Explorer unveiled 2008 data, enabling subscribers to work with the most currently available demographic information.
The data come from the American Community Survey (ACS), an annual survey administered by the Census Bureau to a sample of about 3 million households nationwide. The results from the 2008 survey were recently released and Social Explorer has them ready for use. In concert with the decennial Census, Social Explorer’s 2006 estimates, and prior years of the ACS, the newly added 2008 ACS data offer improved ways to explore and describe US demographics.
Subscribers can access the 2008 ACS data through the maps and the reports tabs. Click here to find out more about subscribing for access to the latest data and all of Social Explorer’s tools and resources.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Social Explorer Debuts 2006 Census Tract-level Estimates by Sydney Beveridge
Earlier this month, Social Explorer unveiled new estimates that let subscribers work with Census tract-level data for the year 2006. The new resource enables deeper research for more recent years of data.
Social Explorer constructed this dataset using data from both the published and public use micro-sample of the 2005-2007 American Community Survey (ACS), and geographic boundaries from the 2000 Census. Social Explorer allocated six-year changes at the so-called PUMA level (areas of at least 100,000 people) to the tracts based upon their characteristics in 2000. In this way, Social Explorer estimates are consistent with those produced by the ACS.
This additional resource brings usability and local-area specificity to the most currently available data. Subscribers can access the 2006 Census estimates through the maps and the reports tabs.
Click here to find out more about subscribing for access to the new estimates and all of Social Explorer’s tools and resources.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Website upgrade! by Ahmed Lacevic
Last week we put up the newly redesigned Social Explorer website. We have have improved the look and feel, navigation and added a new section called ‘Help’ which contains documents and examples on how to use Social Explorer. The help section was written and illustrated by Zanna Hendrey.
We hope you enjoy the new site!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Mailing-List by Ahmed Lacevic
We have started a mailing list for Social Explorer!
Our plan is to send out a simple news-letter email to our mailing list subscribers four to six times a year. This way we can keep you informed about new developments and data releases at Social Explorer, but not overwhelm your inbox. We hope you join.
Sign up here!
Monday, April 28, 2008
Export Social Explorer Slide Shows to PowerPoint! by Ahmed Lacevic
We have added a new feature to export Social Explorer slide shows to Microsoft PowerPoint.
Here is how it’s done:
Fist, you must be logged in either directly or by IP range.
1. click File->New Slide show
2. add a few slides
3. click File->Export to PowerPoint
4. set presentation title then click OK
5. wait while our system produces the slide show.
fig 1. Creating and exporting a slide show to PowerPoint.
fig 2. Enter presentation title and click OK to export.
fig 3. Save or Open the PowerPoint presentation.
Now that you have your presentation in PowerPoint, you can set slide transition property to move to next slide every x seconds. In fig. 4, I set the presentation to move to next slide every second, thereby animating the slide show. This works really well when you have maps over time. For example, you can show how U.S. grew from 1790 to 2000.
fig 4. Set Advance slide property to all slides in the presentation. This will automatically move to next slide every x seconds when the presentation is running.
Sample Presentation: Download 1790-2000 Population Density
Monday, April 21, 2008
Social Explorer Now Supports Opera Browser ver. 8 & 9 by Ahmed Lacevic
Thanks to the good folks at the Opera Software company, we now support Opera Browser version 8 and 9. Opera used to report itself as MSIE in the navigator.appName() javascript function prior to release 9, so when they switched to identifying themselves as Opera, our scripts were a bit off.
Social Explorer now supports Opera version 8 & 9!
