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Social Explorer provides easy access to
demographic information about the United States
from 1790 to the present.
It features over 15,000 interactive data maps and
reports, as well as a full-featured reporting
engine that makes demographic research fast, easy
and comprehensive.
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Social Explorer also provides historical census
data that is hard to obtain or requires extensive
processing to make use of.
It takes this data and makes it easy to use.
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You can easily generate a map of census data.
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You can zoom in to a particular area.
This map shows unemployment across the United
States in 1980.
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Then change the date,
As well as looking at data from one particular
census, it is easy to build a slideshow showing
how one aspect, such as urban population, changed
over time.
Click on the slide holder at the bottom to save
the current map.
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and repeat the process.
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You can also export the slideshow to PowerPoint.
In this way, you can build up a slideshow of, for
example, the growth of the urban population in
the nineteenth century.
These controls allow you to play the slideshow
faster or slower in the main panel.
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