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Dana Greiner

Aliyah Hunter

Jennifer Funk

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

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

Data Sources in mySidewalk

Overview of the 2020 Decennial Census data provided in mySidewalk.

The Decennial Census 2020

Explainer on ACS 5-Year Estimates. Details on release schedule, updates in mySidewalk, and key considerations for interpreting the data.

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

This article explains the differences between the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 1-Year and 5-Year Estimates.

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

How mySidewalk recalculates historical Census data into Modern geographies.

Understanding Historical Census Data in mySidewalk

Learn how mySidewalk creates projected values for select Census data indicators.

Census Projections in mySidewalk

Apportionment & Harmonization: How mySidewalk calculates data into modern boundaries.

Getting data into Modern and/or Custom Geographic Boundaries

Learn about data normalization and how—and when—to use it to provide context and make data more comparable.

What Is Normalization and When Should I Normalize?

Understand why some data appears as “NULL” or “No Data” in mySidewalk.

Data Availability

The distinction between crude and age-adjusted mortality rates in CDC WONDER data and how to use this information effectively in mySidewalk.

Understanding CDC WONDER Data: Crude and Age-Adjusted Mortality Rates

Overview of the processes undertaken to build and maintain the data in the mySidewalk data library.

How the mySidewalk Data Library is Built

Sarah Byrd

mySidewalk Data

Start here to learn about the options for uploading and visualizing your own data

Start Here: Upload Data to mySidewalk

How to upload files that already contain geographic information

Upload GIS Layers or CSVs with Lat/Long Coordinates

How to upload files with tabular data about one or more geographies

Upload CSVs with Tabular Data

How to upload data with multiple time elements - and an example walkthrough

Upload Data with Time Elements

Learning how to fix common errors in the upload process.

Troubleshooting: Common Upload Errors and Solutions

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