Data

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

25 articles in this collection
Written by Jennifer Funk, Dana Greiner, Sydney Paulak and 3 others

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How To: View MySidewalk Data Source Information

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

Written by Jennifer Funk
Updated over a week ago

How To: Use Tags to Manage Your User Data

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

Written by Dana Greiner
Updated over a week ago

How To: Navigate Your User Layer Library

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

Written by Sydney Paulak
Updated over a week ago

mySidewalk Data

Data Sources in mySidewalk

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

Written by Sarah Byrd
Updated over a week ago

The Decennial Census 2020

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

Written by Drew Stiehl
Updated over a week ago

American Community Survey (ACS) Estimates

US Census Bureau

Written by Sarah Byrd
Updated over a week ago

Understanding MySidewalk Data: 5-Year Estimates versus 1-Year Estimates

Learn about mySidewalk's datasets from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates and 1-year Estimates.

Written by Sarah Byrd
Updated over a week ago

Historical Census Data in mySidewalk

Learn how mySidewalk works with historic Census data.

Written by Drew Stiehl
Updated over a week ago

Census Projections in mySidewalk

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

Written by Drew Stiehl
Updated over a week ago

Getting data into Modern and/or Custom Geographic Boundaries

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

Written by Drew Stiehl
Updated over a week ago

What Is Normalization and When Should I Normalize?

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

Written by Jennifer Funk
Updated over a week ago

Keep Data Current in components

When you want current data to update automatically in your components

Written by Anna
Updated over a week ago

Upload

Getting Started: Add my data to mySidewalk

How to get started adding your own data to mySidewalk

Written by Anna
Updated over a week ago

Prepare my data for upload

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

Written by Anna
Updated over a week ago

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

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

Written by Sarah Byrd
Updated over a week ago

Assign a mySidewalk geography (georeference) to my data

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

Written by Anna
Updated over a week ago

Auto-assign geographies in a data upload

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

Written by Anna
Updated over a week ago

Georeference a single geography

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

Written by Anna
Updated over a week ago

Upload My Data with custom geography to mySidewalk

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

Written by Anna
Updated over a week ago

Step by Step: Georeference Tutorial

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

Written by Anna
Updated over a week ago

Step by Step: Load Data with Time

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

Written by Anna
Updated over a week ago

Step by Step: GeoReference Tutorial for a Correlation

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

Written by Anna
Updated over a week ago

Formatting Data in Visualizations

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

Written by Anna
Updated over a week ago

Loading Addresses into mySidewalk

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

Written by Anna
Updated over a week ago

Troubleshooting: Common Upload Errors and Solutions

Learning how to fix common errors in the upload process.

Written by Sarah Byrd
Updated over a week ago