Abstract: A computer implemented method for real time demographic or population data collection is provided. The invention accesses various social networks, mine and consolidate the data from theses sources into a common usable format. The data is sorted and aggregated for a geographic location. The data is then weighted from the first, second and third data sets based on the age of the data. A customer is provided with the real time interactive report including demographic data within the specified geographic location. The demographic data includes a confidence interval indicating the degree of likelihood that the demographic data is correct.

Abstract: A computer implemented real time method for demographic, population or census data collection including the steps of: collecting a first data set and storing the first data at an Internet accessible location; providing access to the stored first data set through the Internet; storing a second data set provided by a customer computer, accessing a third data set responsive to a customer request; locating, interfacing with, storing and using social networking profile data based upon geography to inform population counts; sorting the first, second and third data sets by a first criteria wherein the first criteria is a geographic location; sorting the first, second and third data sets by a second criteria wherein the second criteria indicates age of the data sets; aggregating data for a common geographic location such as a city; weighting the data from the first, second and third data sets based on the age of the data; providing a report including demographic data about people within the location wherein the demo