1. William Cuthbertson The University of Colorado Boulder American FactFinder 2 Exploring

2. 1) What’s Different About FactFinder 2? 2) How Do I Use It? 3) Tips & Tricks 4) Where to Get Help?

3. What’s Different About FactFinder 2? ? ? FactFinder 2 Now

4. FactFinder Circa 2009

5. FactFinder 2 Now

6. FactFinder Topical Navigation People-Oriented Categories Understandable Language FactFinder Circa 2009

7. FactFinder Fact Sheets FactFinder Circa 2009

8. Broader Area Divisions Dynamic Navigation More Complicated Categories Fact Sheets Return! FactFinder 2 Now Non-Static Presentation (A very recent development) Site available in Spanish

9. Summation More sophisticated search options Assumption of familiarity with site FactFinder 2 Now Assumption of Web sophistication New kinds of users

10. FactFinder 2 Now What Data is in FactFinder 2? Decennial Census 2010 American Community Survey 2006-2010 5, 3 and 1-year Selected Population Tables Puerto Rico Community Survey Published with ACS since 2005 Some related data back to 2000 Economic Census 2002 & 2007 Population Estimates Program 2009

11. FactFinder 2 Now What Data is in FactFinder 2? Annual Economic Surveys Annual Survey of Manufacturers 2003-2010 County & Zip-Code Business Patterns 2004-2010 Nonemployer Statistics 2004-2009

12. How Do I Use It? ?

13. FactFinder 2 Dynamic Searching Users can begin typing terms and, like a search engine, FF2 will suggest matching data sets and terms.

14. FactFinder 2 Dynamic Searching Users can begin typing terms and, like a search engine, FF2 will suggest matching data sets and terms.

15. FactFinder 2

21. Selecting to “ – “ or collapse the line item activates the checkbox and allows that row or column to be removed from your table.

22. FactFinder 2 This table has been edited to show only populations by Age, Employment, and lack of Health Insurance Coverage. So of 134 Million employed 18-64 year-olds, 23 Million are shown to lack heath insurance.

23. FactFinder 2

32. Tips & Tricks?

33. FactFinder 2 An advantage of the dynamic nature of Fact Finder 2 is that features are continually being added. Case in point, the re- appearance of Quick Facts (or Fact Sheets) to the FF platform.

34. FactFinder 2 The Quick Facts box links directly to quickfacts.census.gov,quickfacts.census.gov which was the workaround to the information I was originally going to show you.

35. FactFinder 2 Oops. The Quick Facts box links directly to quickfacts.census.gov,quickfacts.census.gov which was the workaround to the information I was originally going to show you.

36. FactFinder 2

39. Where to Get Help?

40. Within FactFinder 2

44. http://www.youtube.com/user/CUBoulderLibraries On YouTube

45. http://community.libguides.com On LibGuides

46. http://community.libguides.com On LibGuides

47. William Cuthbertson The University of Colorado Boulder Thank You

48. Questions, Comments, Dialog