For Love Data Week, we’ll be highlighting data-related resources available to the UC San Diego community. Whether you’re in the social sciences, arts and humanities, or STEM fields, the Library is here to help you find, use, and share data.
The Library also subscribes to a variety of US-focused, interactive data resources.
Social Explorer combines data from the U.S. Census of Population and Housing & the American Community Survey (ACS) with a user-friendly interface, allowing the creation of maps & statistical tables. Social Explorer includes data on U.S. elections, business pattern, environmental summary, health, religion, and crime; the UK and Canadian censuses; Irish religious data; World Development Indicators, and EuroStat.
SimplyAnalytics is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data for the United States. Note: access limited to 5 simultaneous users, please try again later if refused. PolicyMap is a data and mapping tool that combines a curated, comprehensive US geographic data library with simple, robust mapping and analytics tools. Users can create maps of up to five layers, export trend charts with key benchmarks, download data for use in other tools, generate on-the-fly reports, and upload their own data for view.
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