The Social Explorer presentation gave us insights into how we can use the website.  It may be helpful to use the website to look at maps of the area we are going to explore.  You can even look for specific areas or addresses, which will also be helpful in our project.  We can then go to those areas or addresses to explore further.  You can also puts these maps into a slideshow form to scroll through multiple maps.

The website is also useful because you can input specific factors you want to explore about the area, including income, race, and religion.  In some cases you can even put more than one of these aspects on the same graph in order to compare more easily.  In the presentation we also saw the use of circles to show data, in this case it was election data.  It was interesting to see how you could manipulate the maps in this and other ways.