BE 3290: Professionalism for Biological Engineers: Locating Community Information

This guide will introduce you to resources for evaluating and locating information on ethical issues in engineering.

Community Statistics

SimplyAnalytics
SimplyAnalytics is a powerful analytical and data visualization tool to create charts, reports, and maps. Access demographic, business, and marketing data from sources such as Nielsen, Dun & Bradstreet, and SimmonsLOCAL. Demographic variables include housing, employment, transportation, and families.
Create an account using your LSU email address or sign in as a guest.

Note: This database allows 15 simultaneous users.

Census Bureau Data
Learn about America's communities through our data profiles. They cover 100,000+ different geographies: states, counties, places, tribal areas, zip codes, and congressional districts. For each, we cover topics like education, employment, health, and housing just to name a few.
Open Data BR
Locate public data and information about the City of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish. Categories of data include government, culture and recreation, public safety, housing and development, transportation and infrastructure, and business and financial.

Pew Research Center: Science & Society
Locate public opinion polling data related to science topics, including climate and environment.

Roper iPoll
Roper iPoll includes polling data from nearly every major organization that has conducted polls in the United States today, including academic, media, foundation, nonprofit and private industry pollsters. The archive also includes data from polling organizations based in over 120 countries. iPoll consists of over 35,000 studies with over 725,000 searchable survey questions, and over 24,000 datasets from public opinion surveys dating back to the 1930s. These studies cover a vast variety of topics including elections and politics, social issues, finances and the economy, education, health, international affairs, social movements and change, and historical events. Also includes downloadable questionnaires, analysis, interviewer instructions, and cross-tab analytic tools.