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Online Resources from Oxford University Press www. socialexplorer. com

Online Resources from Oxford University Press www. socialexplorer. com

This presentation gives a brief description of Social Explorer It tells you • what

This presentation gives a brief description of Social Explorer It tells you • what Social Explorer is • how it can help you • how to generate maps in it The presentation will take about 4 minutes www. socialexplorer. com

Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States from 1790

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. www. socialexplorer. com

Social Explorer also provides historical census data that is hard to obtain or requires

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. www. socialexplorer. com

You can easily generate a map of census data. www. socialexplorer. com

You can easily generate a map of census data. www. socialexplorer. com

You can zoom in to a particular area. This map shows unemployment across the

You can zoom in to a particular area. This map shows unemployment across the United States in 1980. www. socialexplorer. com

Then change the date, … Click on the slide holder at the bottom to

Then change the date, … Click on the slide holder at the bottom to save the current map. www. socialexplorer. com As well as looking at data from one particular census, it is easy to build a slideshowing how one aspect, such as urban population, changed over time.

…and repeat the process. www. socialexplorer. com

…and repeat the process. www. socialexplorer. com

You can also export the slideshow to Power. Point. In this way, you can

You can also export the slideshow to Power. Point. In this way, you can build up a slideshow of, for example, the growth of the urban population in the nineteenth century. www. socialexplorer. com These controls allow you to play the slideshow faster or slower in the main panel.

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For further information about all online resources from Oxford, and to request institutional free

For further information about all online resources from Oxford, and to request institutional free trials and price quotations please contact your library supplier or Oxford University Press: Online Products, Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX 2 6 DP onlineproducts@oup. com +44 (0) 1865 353705 +44 (0) 1865 353308 www. socialexplorer. com