The Trends view is ideal when you want to understand change within a community over time. With it, you can quickly compare changes across dozens or even hundreds of places all at once.

The Trends view is one of five different Seek views - or ways of looking at your data and region selections. The others are Table, Map, Distribution, and Relationships.

Seek is set up as a workspace with a Display Panel on the left and a Control Panel on the right.

Your selection of regions and data via the Control Panel determines the presentation of data in the Display Panel. To use the Trends view, you must first select regions and data.*

*Note that if you’ve already selected regions and data in another view, your selections will carry over. You can always change or add to your selections by returning to the Regions and Data modals in the Control Panel.

This view is made up of a Trends table that allows you to review the trend graphs for up to 100 regions at a time, as well as calculate change over time for a customizable time range.

Find the largest or smallest changes

You can sort the Trends table by region, direction of the change, measured change, or relative change.

Calculate the change between two specific points in time

Change what is calculated by dragging the range slider handles across the timeline at the top to select any length of time. This allows you to quickly exclude projections, or historic values. In the example below, the timeline was modified in order to exclude projections.

Dig into an interesting trend

Click on any region name to view a more detailed and interactive representation of the trend.

An example of the more detailed view of a selected region:

Export what you found

In the Control Panel, you can export the Trends table as a PNG or export all of the trend data as a CSV for further analysis.