The O’Reilly Radar links to the Social Explorer site, which offers an easy to use, web-based GIS (”mapping”) application for exploring US census data. Having briefly played with ArcGIS, a fancy and expensive GIS package, Social Explorer is a very exciting tool. It’s much more limited, but also much easier to use than a tool like ArcGIS. This image is the poverty level by census district in Ann Arbor and Ypsi.

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