Does anyone have any experience or advice for merging/linking Safegraph data with Social Explorer info (or a similar program)?

Hello everyone! I am a research assistant for the BSL Lab, and we are interested in merging/linking Safegraph data with information gathered from Social Explorer. Does anyone have any experience or advice for merging/linking Safegraph data with Social Explorer info (or a similar program)?


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Hey @lomba094 ! Thanks for the question. Not super familiar with Social Explorer but at first glance looks like they have a wide variety of data. Any particular type of data from Social Explorer you’re looking to use?

We are looking at associations between child care visits (Safegraph), employment/unemployment, and covid rates.

This is a little bit dated of a resource but might help directionally in joining disparate datasets:

Separately, are addresses tied to the employment/unemployment? Could be a good way to leverage our Match service if you haven’t already.