COMPENDIUM of HELPFUL WEBSITES FOR GEOG3600 – re social behavioral issues

COMPENDIUM of HELPFUL WEBSITES FOR GEOG3600 – re social behavioral issues

From students of GEOG3600 – 2011 – present.

Link: ESRI's business Analyst Online is awesome! If you don't already have an account it is worth it to make one. They've got a free app for your phone too. It's very useful in that it already has all the census tract data mapped and allows you to compare and contrast. You could pull the data off census tract your self, but why reinvent the wheel?

This link can help me out with exploring some of the social issues of Park City: http://www.bestplaces.net/city/utah/park_city

I would also like info on the economics of the county and where this income is coming from. I've been able to find good data on these issues both from factfinder and quickfact both of which rely on U.S. census data.

I really like ZIPskinny.com because it allows you to directly compare different zip codes which is very helpful in understanding how Cache County compares to other areas of Utah as well as the nation.

Link: www.grandcountyutah.net much of the same information that is in the governors report is more county specific on this website

Graphs from www.bestplaces.net … and USCensus 2010.census.gov are helpful for recent data.

I found the following two sites to be very informative on Summit County demographics

http://www.city-data.com/county/Summit_County-UT.html

http://www.zipskinny.com/index.php?zip=84772&pagetype=charts

http://www.zoomprospector.com/CommunityDetail.aspx?id=508 for Utah County.

I was able to find lots of data for my county. One site I found is: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html It gives great information for states, counties, and even cities. I learned a lot from this site.

A link I found helpful is http://ibis.health.utah.gov/query

Through the local newspaper I could explore many things, data, records, and images.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah - towards the bottom there is useful information.

http://www.thespectrum.com/

Some helpful links:

http://www.city-data.com/county

http://publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/UT_Garfield.htm

http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/49/49027.html good for comparing Utah counties… diverse data.

http://publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/UT_Millard.htm

http://www.city-data.com/ lots or city and counties

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/49/49053.html

This quickfacts.census.gov site is awesome for finding pretty much anything that has to do with the demographics of your county. It showed up to date numbers on my county that made this last chapter of our atlas pretty easy to complete. You do have to search around a bit to find the specific type of data you're looking for, but overall it's pretty easy to find. When I googled Washington County, Utah census, this quickfacts website was one of the first to pop up so I'm sure it will be for all of our individual counties as well. Hope this helps!

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http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/49/49053.html

ttp://pioneer.utah.gov/research/utah_counties/beaver.html -- I found this site very helpful, it gives quick information on Beaver County and it also provides links to demographic facts and economic fact which are very helpful.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/49/49027.html

This is an awesome website that I found thru this one http://publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/UT_Millard.htm

I like it because it compares your counties numbers and data with the state wide numbers and data. It also breaks the data down into many sub catagories so that you are not getting data that might be scewed by other factors.

EXAMPLE of nifty for economics… demographics… by county… shown for Millard County:

http://www.zoomprospector.com/communitydetail.aspx?id=408

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_County,_Utah

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/49/49017.html

I always find Wikipedia helpful, although, because it's open to revision by anyone, it's good to double check information. Wikipedia had a lot of useful information about Garfield County.

I also really liked quickfacts. The information is readily available. It's extremely easy.

http://www.city-data.com/county/religion/Garfield-County-UT.html

http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml?refresh=t

I really thought the census fact finder was helpful because you could search any topic for any county! It listed up to date data that was relevant to the topic I was looking for. Also, for sociology stats, the city-data site was nice because you could search for any county and was easy to find stats about what you are looking for! Super easy!

I mentioned ESRI's BAO earlier, and I really can't say enough about it. Some of the API's and free interactive maps they're rolling out are terrific. It is much more legible and much easier to navigate for buffer zone analysis (but not for the county whole) than American Fact Finder. I've found it useful to put a 5 mile buffer around my elementary school and the same with other elementary schools to compare and contrast. You can export the tables to excel when your done and I believe you can pull the maps into a PDF otherwise you can just screen cap it.

This interactive Map shows the uninsured, Hispanics, and income on a county level

This links to ESRI's interactive map page, you might be able to find county level data for your project here

Hey, I hope I'm posting this in the right place. I wasn't quite sure whether to post here or somewhere else but one of the websites I found to be very helpful was www.city-data.com. It's got a wide range of data on lots of different faucets of all counties in Utah and they're arranged in a way that's easy to understand.

http://www.bestplaces.net

I like this website because you can look up data for your county which is broken down into simple categories: people, health, economy, rankings, crime, religion and many more. Note that you have to initially search for a city or zip code within your county, and then you can click on the county.

http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml

This is the official website of the US Census. It is a great source for finding population, housing, economic, and geographic data. You can find information for not only the entire state of Utah, but specific data for your county. It is a great resource for gathering a lot of date for chapter 8.

http://www,grandcountyutah.net

This website was very helpful when looking for information specific to my county, I suggest doing a little bit of searching online and seeing if your county has a website similar to this. It was very useful because if was specific data to my county, it also had comparisons between other counties, the state, and the country. Each county does a similar report to that of the governor's for the entire state of Utah, the task if just finding out where to get the information. It was easier to find information specific to my county when using this website instead of having to go through the entire U.S. Census or the state report.

Hi everyone. I'd like to share some links that I found were very helpful for finding information and data sets for my Atlas Chapter 8.

a. Links: http://www.bestplaces.net/county/utah/san_juan

http://www.city-data.com/county/San_Juan_County-UT.html

b. The first link to www.bestplaces.net provided me with some tables that showed statistics of the county, such as economic activity, cost of living, religions, and education. Several of the data sets I made in my Chapter 8 consisted of the data from some of these tables. I made them into pie charts to make the proportions between categories of data easier to see.

I agree with Daniel Shackelford that www.city-data.com is one of the most useful resources for county statistics. The site provided a more well-rounded set of facts, some useful and some interesting. The website contains many bar graphs and charts to present a wide array of data, ranging from household data to birth and death rates. A data set I found particularly amusing for my county was one that showed the most popular first and last names of the county's deceased residents and their average lifespan. Overall, this website is more than helpful enough with providing the statistics that one can refer to when studying a county.

Hey everyone. I finished my chapter 8, so its up in our group's files for anyone who wants to look at it. but here are some tips as per the homework assignment

a) the site i found most helpful was:

http://www.city-data.com/county/Summit_County-UT.html

b) This site had a large amount of graphs and data very specific to my county including population, sex ratios, age and race graphs, and charts on occupation, industries, politics, and even religion. An interesting trick i learned this weekend was how to copy graphs or images to a word document like our atlas. all you have to do is press ctrl + prnt scrn and it will copy an image of your whatever is on your screen. then just paste it onto your atlas and you can crop it to just fit the graph. i hope these tips helps

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/49/49049.html

This site has a lot of pertinent statistics and data for your chapter 8. You can specify your search to as broadly as the Utah state, or as specific as a city in Utah, or any county in-between. You can even compare Utah with other states or even the entire nation. The statistics include everything from population, race, ethnicity, homeownership, business and economics, and even land area. I’ve found it very helpful in writing my chapter 8 and if you are having any trouble, I suggest taking a look at this site.

http://www.city-data.com/

I really liked this website because I was able to look up a ton of data for my county. You can also look up other counties, or individual cities, and get all the same data so that you can compare.

clrsearch.com has provided some good info.

Hey guys, I have also finished my chapter 8 and found your tips very helpful! I found the city-data.com site very helpful as well. Another site that was useful to me was:

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/49/49057.html

as well as:

http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml

These two links have together giving me a diverse bank of information on a number of the topics Dr. Perlich discussed in the lecture. The data from these sites is very simply organized and easily accessed making the research stage much smoother. Also, having a couple of different sites to bounce between is really nice because you can double check your data, and the data may be polled in a different style, adding variety to credibility to your research. Hope my pointers can help as I found Daniel and Alan's tips of great value.

I have enjoyed CLRsearch.com. It gives really detailed info concerning social and economic info. I've really enjoyed finding the info on average house prices, and average house age. The most helpful info has definitely been the workforce data. It gives a great idea of the jobs in San Juan County, and in what sectors the populace is employed.

Roger Sarkis: In the following link, the U.S Department of Commerce: Census Bureau released data showing the population trend in Utah County. I used this data for my atlas chapter on demographics. I found it particularly interesting because the peak population growth period coincides with the housing market crash as well as with the recession. I think this can be attributed to the exodus that states like California and Nevada experienced as housing prices plummeted. I think many of those people came to Utah in search of job opportunities and more affordable housing.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UTUTAH9POP

Kyle Daniels

http://www.city-data.com/county/Juab_County-UT.html

I found this site to be very helpful and full of a lot of data pertaining to Juab County. the site features many of the demographics that I will be able to use in my Atlas. The site shows population growth as well as graduation rates. It details religions in the county as well as the seismic activity of the last decades. It shows teh diversity of race in the county.

http://historytogo.utah.gov/

Cheesy, but lots of really interesting material here

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/popInfo.php?locIndex=22848

This was the website that helped me the most. It gave me almost every statistic that I was looking for. There is only a population of around 15 thousand people and is mostly white. I will continue to use this page throughout the rest of the course.