The Quick Start video will give you a quick overview to get you started with the basics. If you only have time to watch one video, choose this one. You will see how to create maps from the data and get reports for areas of interest.Duration 4:21

This video illustrates how to use visual exploratory tools in Community Analyst to gain a deeper understanding of the community.

This video covers...

• Color-coded maps
• Smart Map Search
• Importing of addresses or points
• Business and facility search

Community Analyst can create reports for any area you define on the map. This video illustrates the different ways you can specify areas on the map.

You will learn how to...

• Create a ring or drive time buffer
• Outline areas on the map
• Select from common geographies
• Import your own areas

Once you have defined an area on the map, you can run any of the predefined reports in Community Analyst or create your own report from the data in the system.

You will learn how to...

• Run reports in PDF and/or Excel format
• Tag your favorite reports
• Compare areas
• Create your own custom comparison reports

This video shows the Smart Map Search tool introduced in the Exploring the Community video in more detail.

You will learn how to...

• Query the map
• Find "hot spots" on the map to target
• Save and reuse your criteria search list
• Export results to Excel

Community Analyst is an open system that allows you to access web maps created by others to use in your analyses.

You will learn how to...

• Access public and private web maps
• Run reports for web map features
• Control individual web map layers
• Map data contained in web maps

This video shows how Community Analyst can be used to research citizen engagement in political issues and possibly increase it. Mapping and reporting tools are used to explore the City of Bell, California.

This video illustrates how to find populations in need, and communicate more effectively with them using Esri's Tapestry segmentation data.

Esri Product Manager, Brenda Wolfe, demonstrates how Community Analyst's more than 6,000 variables data variables can help organizations explore the demographic characteristics of an area and better understand the impacts of decisions and policies.

An illustration of how Community Analyst can lead to unexpected solutions by combining curiosity and data. An analysis of graffiti leads to an unexpected find.

This video shows how to determine the population and business impacts of a natural disaster. The tornado that struck Joplin, MO in 2011 is used as an example.

This example highlights how Community Analyst can be used to target grant opportunities at the national level and to plan health interventions at the neighborhood level.