Web Mapping
- Social Explorer
This resource lets you visualize historical and current census data. Social Explorer also includes data for crime, health, religion, censuses for Canada and the United Kingdom and development indicators.
To take full advantage of Social Explorer, you must create an account within the resource. - PolicyMapPolicyMap is a fully web-based online data and mapping application that gives you access to over 15,000 indicators related to demographics, housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs and more.
- Explore census data
Data.census.gov is the new platform to access demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The vision for data.census.gov is to improve the customer experience by making data available from one centralized place so that data users spend less time searching for data and content, and more time using it. ...
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Selected Book(s)
Designing geodatabases by Call Number: Baker-Berry G 70.2 .A74 2004 c.2ISBN: 158948021XThis guide to creating a dynamic GIS data model helps database managers design a schema that has comprehensive and descriptive query definitions, a user-friendly cartographic display, and increased performance standards.
The GIS 20: essential skills by Call Number: Baker-Berry G 70.212 .C58 2017ISBN: 9781589485129Publication Date: 3rd ed.How can you quickly begin applying GIS to your work? The GIS 20: Essential Skills, third edition, presents step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and practical tips on how to perform the top 20 skills needed to successfully use a geographic information system (GIS). These skills include finding and editing data, querying GIS maps, creating reports, and sharing and publishing maps.
The history of geographic information systems: perspectives from the pioneers by Call Number: Evans Map Room G 70.212 .H57 1998ISBN: 9780138621452To understand the power of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Geographical Positioning Systems (GPS) today, it is essential to understand their background and history, and the needs they were designed to answer.
Mapping census 2010: the geography of American change by Call Number: Baker-Berry G 1201 .E25 P43 2012ISBN: 9781589483194Mapping Census 2010: The Geography of American Change is an atlas of the American people: who we are, and where we are. Using the latest census data and geographic information system (GIS) technology, this atlas examines how our unique population is moving and changing.
Unlocking the census with GIS by Call Number: Baker-Berry HA 37.U55 P48 2004ISBN: 9781589481138Seeking to demystify the census and explaining the potential of GIS for understanding people, places, and local economies, this guide explains how geographic information systems (GIS) can significantly ease data management, allowing for new ways to analyze and present relationships among variables.
Urban policy and the census by Call Number: Baker-Berry HT 123 .M13 2011ISBN: 9781589482227Urban Policy and the Census helps researchers and policy analysts gain an integrated understanding of census data and other relevant policy data sources, their strengths and limitations, and how best to use this data in policy research. Researchers will be able to critically assess decennial census and the American Community Survey data, which can be the starting point for spatial analysis for realistic policy planning and decision-making. ...
An exhibit from NOAA
- Charting a more perfect union ... 1861-1865This is a Civil War collection of maps and charts from NOAA.
- Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the Southern States of the United StatesOne of the first maps to show census data, to use new shading techniques and an early chloropleth map. The data in this map was collected for the 1860 census.