User:Stevey7788/About the maps

These maps are self-generated by me at the U.S. Census Bureau's American Factfinder site. Being very fascinating and also educational, I decided to put these images on Wikipedia to add a little more color, maps and charts to the boring world of text and headings. Each image is in .gif format and is about 30 kilobytes in size. I hope you enjoy them!

Using the American Factfinder
If you would like to learn how to use the American Factfinder, here's how (it takes a while to learn it):

Go to the website's main page and click on the "Data sets" tab on the left side. Once the page loads, you should see "Summary File (SF) 1," "SF 2," "SF 3," and so forth. Use SF 1 for race, renter/owner occupation, and age/sex data. SF 3 is for all sorts of economic, social, and housing characteristics.

Now click on "SF 1" or "SF 3." You can now select "quick tables," "detailed tables," or "thematic maps." Once you've selected something, select "place," "county," "state," etc. Then select a theme.

Summary of operations: Main -- All Data Sets -- Data Sets with Thematic Maps -- Geography -- Themes -- Results

There are a lot more features I haven't mentioned. Feel free to experiment with the Factfinder tools.

Image tags
Some, but not all, of the images carry the following description: 

This image is a self-generated thematic map from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Factfinder at http://factfinder.census.gov/ by Wikipedia user Stevey7788.

Why did I create the "Maps" subpage?
Some of you may be wondering why I created the subpage. Well, it's just a little image gallery I use to better organize things. Feel free to view the images from here and correct any errors that I may have made.

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