Data Search Tool Tutorial
1. Select and view neighborhood data
Imagine you want to know how the time you spend commuting to work compares to people in other neighborhoods in New York. This tutorial demonstrates how to select and view specific neighborhood data, based on your interest.
First, make sure you’re in the Neighborhood Information section. Click on the “Neighborhood Info” tab to switch to that section.
Next, you will have to select a few criteria to narrow your search to the relevant commuting information.
All indicators are available at several different levels of geography. This allows you to get a single number for the whole city, compare boroughs, or even smaller geographic areas such as police precincts or census tracts if you so choose. The available geographic choices depend upon the selected indicator.
Selecting a level of geography allows you to narrow down the results to only part of the city.
Press “Submit”!
The map will now display those subborough areas with longer commutes in 2009 in a darker color. You can see that most areas in Manhattan or northern Brooklyn display shorter commute times than other areas.
If you want to see what values the colors correspond to, click on the “Legend” button on the upper right hand corner of the map. This panel also allows you to select another year to show on the map.
To see the exact values for the subboroughs, view the information as a table. Click on the “Table” button.
The table displays each subborough as a row, and each year as a column. Scroll down to see more subboroughs, and scroll sideways to see more years.
In order to see all the subboroughs at once, you can increase the number of rows displayed on a single page. Below the table on the left side, you can select to “Show” 20, 100, or 500 geographies at once.
You can also scroll through additional pages if the geographies do not fit on a single page using the arrows next to the “Show” selection.
