Education

Empower Teaching and Learning with Data

Our intuitive and comprehensive demographic data visualization platform is ideal for instructors and students alike.

  • Expand understanding of academic fields through data literacy and research
  • Provide a tool students can use to gain deep insights into their community and beyond
  • Incorporate data into the classroom with easy-to-use tools
  • Build interactive data-driven lessons and presentations

“Social Explorer transforms eye-glazing rows of dry statistics into vibrant maps full of meaning. It awakens curiosity. It makes census data, dare I say it, exciting.”

Michael Hughes, Trinity University

Trusted by Leading Universities

An Imperative Teaching Tool

Social Explorer is the ideal data-driven teaching tool that employs an engaging visual approach to understanding data against a real world backdrop. Students develop critical-thinking skills, data literacy and reasoning which are essential in preparing to succeed in today’s professional environment.

Social Explorer is truly cross-disciplinary, aiding instructors in:

Sociology, Urban Studies, Urban Planning, Public Health, Real Estate,  Criminology, Political Science,  Economic Development, Business, Marketing, Economics, Geography, Environmental Studies, Journalism and more.

New and Updated Datasets

Social Explorer offers up-to-date datasets on all current issues that allows you to make better sense of your community and beyond. Not only do we offer the most up to date American Community Survey and Census data, we also offer data on unemployment, rent, income, health, socio-economic variables, and much more. Explore thousands of variables in seconds with our intuitive and data rich platform.

For Research

Social Explorer is designed to provide libraries, scholars, students, and researchers at all levels with quick and easy access to current and historical socio-economic and demographic data. The vast and growing amount of quantitative data with an intuitive visual interface makes demographic research, analysis of social trends, and comparison of neighborhoods easily accessible and interactive.

For Preparing Students for the Future

Data and location know-how is central in many industries. Hundreds of thousands of companies and agencies benefit from location analysis skills. Give your students the skills and knowledge that will serve them well in the increasingly data-fueled future.

A Tailored Solution

Every community is different, requiring specific attention and analysis. 

We work directly with you to help you understand your library community, the available services in your service area and your service area demographics. We provide answers to questions that lead to successful programming for your community. 

Additionally, Social Explorer helps libraries create more strategic marketing plans, consider their community outreach, and run their business by using the best in class data paired with a stunning mapping interface.

Social Explorer offers three tiers of analysis: Service Area Demography, Cardholder Engagement Analysis, Service Area Needs Analysis. 

Cardholder Engagement Analysis

Discover where your cardholders live, the communities that are well-served and the communities that are under-served. 

We blend your cardholder data with our demographic and business data to gain insights into your community population and behavior.

This service includes a report and five-seat annual access to Social Explorer.

508 Compliance

At Social Explorer, we take 508 compliance and best practices for all website users very seriously. Accessibility ranks uppermost in the process of website development. Read the reports here. If you have any questions or comments about our 508 compliance, please contact us.

Working with Consortia

Social Explorer has agreements with most of the larger consortia in the United States. If you are a member of LYRASIS, CRL, NERLs, WALDO, SCELC, COARL, WiLS or other consortia, we can work with you to ensure you get the best pricing available.

508 Compliance

At Social Explorer, we take 508 compliance and best practices for all website users very seriously. Accessibility ranks uppermost in the process of website development. Read the reports here. If you have any questions or comments about our 508 compliance, please contact us.

Working with Consortia

Social Explorer has agreements with most of the larger consortia in the United States. If you are a member of LYRASIS, CRL, NERLs, WALDO, SCELC, COARL, WiLS or other consortia, we can work with you to ensure you get the best pricing available.

Get the Social Explorer Advantage.

Easily explore demographic, socio-economic, historical, and current data with beautiful maps, detailed reports & unlimited data downloads.