Webinar: Start with the Address: Building Community Profiles with U.S. Census Data

Last Updated: February 20, 2025
Published: February 18, 2025

	Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025		Time: 2:00 p.m.– 3:00 p.m. (EDT)
Recording and closed captioning are available. All webinars are free of charge.

Register to attend the live training webinar, "Start with the Address: Building Community Profiles with U.S. Census Data."

Speaker: Edward Kownslar, Head of Library Public Services, Stephen F. Austin State University

Description: This workshop will show attendees how to build a community profile using Census data. We will start by locating a business address and then retrieve information from data.census.gov to describe the surrounding area. The major Census geographic areas will be discussed, but the session will focus on finding data for the Census tracts that are located around that address. Attendees will then learn how to analyze the data with mapping, MS Excel, and Google Sheets. We will also apply the basic principles of effective data visualization.

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