"Wait... they don't love you like I love you" [sorry, got stuck in my head]

March 25, 2005 11:26 AM

Social Explorer. "Social Explorer is dedicated to providing demographic information in an easily understood format, data maps. We serve hundreds of interactive data maps of United States. Here, you can visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S., explore your neighborhood and learn about the people that live around you."
posted by jokeefe (13 comments total)

This is really cool - reminds me of the popvscoke site or the potato bug debate last week. The slide show's a little janky but generally works well. Needs a self-report thing for aggregating user-determined data.

The standalone version will be available for download on April 15, 2005 <----bomb
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 11:44 AM on March 25, 2005

Pretty neat stuff, its a little slow and they should spell check pages before they go live (check out Interactive on the home page).

And once this is downloadable, it will be supercool. Especially if I can download it to my PDA!
posted by fenriq at 11:55 AM on March 25, 2005

Needs a self-report thing for aggregating user-determined data.

It's beta and more data (and perhaps more analytical tools) will be added to the site over the next few months.

The standalone version will be available for download on April 15, 2005 <----bomb

"Bomb"?
posted by jokeefe at 12:01 PM on March 25, 2005

And here I thought I live in a "white" neighborhood.

Can anyone tell me what a "bodega" is?
posted by jsavimbi at 12:38 PM on March 25, 2005

A bodega originally meant a Latin owned corner store, but is often applied to any immigrant owned corner store.
posted by jonmc at 1:02 PM on March 25, 2005

Oh, ok. We always called it the 40/420 store for some unknown reason.
posted by jsavimbi at 1:13 PM on March 25, 2005

Wow. The coolest thing I've seen posted to MeFi in ages. Many times I would have paid handsomely for some of this data and interface.
posted by Kwantsar at 1:23 PM on March 25, 2005

15-25% of my neighbors heat with coal or wood in my 90-100% rural area. Excellent.
posted by jessamyn at 3:29 PM on March 25, 2005

I heat with wood at my cabin.

Bomb = the bomb.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 4:11 PM on March 25, 2005

wow. pretty cool
posted by salminen at 6:14 PM on March 25, 2005

This is really great.

And nice post title.
posted by deafmute at 7:02 PM on March 25, 2005

Since when does "social" mean "race?"
posted by pwedza at 2:00 AM on March 26, 2005

Very nice, I found these two sites for Illinois the other day.
posted by dwordle at 8:03 AM on March 26, 2005