I really enjoyed the Social Explorer website and the features it offered. Demographics are of interest to me so I explored the website on my own after the presentation and found confirmation to some things I suspected about my own neighborhood and discovered interesting things about some others. I thought it was really great and almost unbelievable that a tool like that was created since I can only image what an insane amount of work people had to go through to collect all that data that is mostly on paper and putting it together into a website and keeping it so neatly organized. The website’s interface and layout make it easy to use and the map saving options are useful. It is well thought out. I’m just amazed because I heard from some people who work at NYC jobs (like public hospitals) that anything government-run is very slow and the systems are still not modernized and most things are on paper and not in computers. It is messy: these papers with important documents are just all in boxes and in basements of government offices and that finding something and putting information together can be a challenge. They are sorted in some way of course, but that there are mistakes and when a mistake is made and something is misplaced, finding that paper can be a challenge. I’m very grateful for the Social Explorer tool that makes this valuable data easily accessible.