mySidewalk

Dana Greiner

Jennifer Funk

Aliyah Hunter

Learn about the mySidewalk curated community data and how to upload your own data.

Data

Find out where we get the mySidewalk data and how you can site it

How To: View MySidewalk Data Source Information

Learn how adding tags to uploaded data helps you manage your user data by making it easier to sort, find, and update individual datasets.

How To: Use Tags to Manage Your User Data

Learn how to make a user layer from your own data and expand the possibilities of your layer library.

How To: Navigate Your User Layer Library

Browse

The data sources available in the mySidewalk data library, organized by update month and frequency.

Data Sources in mySidewalk

Updates from the mySidewalk team regarding 2020 Decennial Census data and redistricted legislative districts.

The Decennial Census 2020

Granular annually updating source of data on people, housing units, income, vehicle access, educational attainment, poverty, and more.

U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year Estimates

Learn about about the differences between the 1-year and 5-year Estimates.

U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year vs 5-Year Estimates

Learn how mySidewalk works with historic Census data.

Historical Census Data in mySidewalk

Learn about the methodology used by the mySidewalk to create projected values for select Census data indicators.

Census Projections in mySidewalk

Apportionment & Harmonization: How mySidewalk gets data into modern boundaries and data from the library into your custom boundaries.

Getting data into Modern and/or Custom Geographic Boundaries

Learn about data normalization and how - and when - you should use it to better communicate your data.

What Is Normalization and When Should I Normalize?

When you want current data to update automatically in your components

Keep Data Current in components

Why data may appear as NULL or No Data in mySidewalk.

Data Availability

Drew Stiehl

Sarah Byrd

mySidewalk Data

How to get started adding your own data to mySidewalk

Getting Started: Add my data to mySidewalk

File formats, examples and strategies for uploading your own data with geography, time and totals

Prepare my data for upload

Learn the file and geometry formats you can use to upload your own layers to the mySidewalk Platform.

What File Types Can I Use to Upload My User Data?

How to add your own data to mySidewalk using a pre-defined geography

Assign a mySidewalk geography (georeference) to my data

Learn how to upload data and georeference it using our auto-matching tool (and GeoID or S-H-ID, a mySidewalk unique identifier)

Auto-assign geographies in a data upload

Step by step walkthrough of using the georeferencing feature when you want to use a single geography and how this uses time

Georeference a single geography

Learn how to upload your own data with a custom geography in mySidewalk

Upload My Data with custom geography to mySidewalk

Learn to link MyData to MySidewalk geographic data and use the findings to create a map and callout

Step by Step: Georeference Tutorial

Step by step walkthrough of using the upload feature when you want to make sure time is represented

Step by Step: Load Data with Time

Step by Step walkthrough where you can create an example that correlates your Data with mySidewalk Data.

Step by Step: GeoReference Tutorial for a Correlation

Learn the different formats (ways) you can display data on visualizations

Formatting Data in Visualizations

Learn how to geocode addresses so they can be uploaded into mySidewalk as points.