# Social Explorer Reviews
**Vendor:** Social Explorer  
**Category:** [Location Intelligence Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/location-intelligence)
## About Social Explorer
Social Explorer's demographic mapping software is used by educational institutions, government agencies, non-profits, and for-profit companies in the marketing, real estate, and utilities industries to understand their communities. Build maps and reports using over 500,000 variables from built-in crime, environmental, health, and social datasets in order to profile the neighborhoods, census blocks, zip codes, counties, or states that matter most to your organization. All of this is available via Social Explorer's user-friendly interface, making it the perfect tool for users who need location intelligence but don't have extensive GIS training.






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## Social Explorer Features
**Reports**
- Reports Interface
- Steps to Answer
- Graphs and Charts
- Dashboards

**Data Management**
- Data Capture
- Data Storage
- Data Manipulation
- Data Visualization

**Cartography**
- Map Design
- Vector Mapping 
- Data Visualization
- Overlaying

**Map Creation**
- Geocoding
- Buffer Zone Query
- Overlaying
- Publishing

**Analysis**
- Distance Analysis 
- Spatial Analysis

**Analysis**
- Spatial Analysis
- Reporting 
- Real-Time Streaming 

**Reporting**
- Data Transformation

**Self Service **
- Data Column Filtering
- Data Discovery
- Search
- Automodeling

**Advanced Analytics**
- Data Visualization
- Big Data Services

**Building Reports**
- Data Transformation
- Data Modeling

**Platform**
- Performance and Reliability

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