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Would love to build in a scraper to get all AirBnB and VRBO types of listings in the Memphis area and add this as an attribute/filter on the Property Hub

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TDH has an excellent compilation about birth defects in TN (Tennessee Birth Defects Surveillance System) if you have an interest in connecting. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://data.tn.gov/t/Public/views/BirthDefectsDataDashboard/CountCountyFinal?%3Aembed=y&amp;%3AshowShareOptions=false&amp;%3Atoolbar=bottom">https://data.tn.gov/t/Public/views/BirthDefectsDataDashboard/CountCountyFinal?%3Aembed=y&amp;%3AshowShareOptions=false&amp;%3Atoolbar=bottom</a>Description:<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://www.tn.gov/health/health-program-areas/fhw/tennessee-birth-defects-surveillance-system/about-tennessee-birth-defects-surveillance-system.html">https://www.tn.gov/health/health-program-areas/fhw/tennessee-birth-defects-surveillance-system/about-tennessee-birth-defects-surveillance-system.html</a>

TN Department of Health

When drawing a geographic boundary, it would be helpful to see Total Assessment Value in addition to Median.

Aggregate Assessment Value

owner name search to identify and return all parcels owned by specific owners. Currently the search function may pull the primary street address for a place such as Lindenwood Methodist Church but it would be useful to have the ability to identify all parcels owned by Lindenwood Church.

The ability to draw multiple geographies and directly compare them.

Quick Compare

Enable community members to tag and rate parcel conditions in real time

User-Generated Surveys

Increase font size default for charts (title, legends, axes, etc.) - both ones we are customizing and ones users can build themselves

Increase Font Size in Charts

kmorin

This is a great resource! Thank you for sharing! It is great to have all this stuff in one place, with easy charts and maps, and even an API!

Great resource

Available at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://xfer.shelbycountytn.gov/">https://xfer.shelbycountytn.gov/</a> including current jail roster and some court docket information. I saw you had eviction data from GS court which is nice. There are some ethical concerns with keeping records that will later be expunged which would need to be worked through.

Shelby County Public Safety Data

E.g. stuff from EDGE on PILOT programs and their financial/economic investments/impact, availability/locations of jobs and accompanying data on wages, grant investments in specific zip codes, etc. Just spit-balling—in general I think there's a lot of obfuscation with regard to the flow of capital and it would be cool to see some of that more democratized and accessible.

More economic wealth data

Overlay tax-increment finance districts and Community Development Corporation service areas

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TIF & CDC Boundary Layers

Environmental Court actions related to blight and habitability

Neighborhood Preservation Act (NPA) Filings

Tracking water, gas, and electric shut-offs to help flag households at risk

Utility Disconnections (MLGW)

Determine consistent naming conventions for catalog sources since they are alphabetical and people will scroll (recommend topic then more detailed descriptors, maybe source);

Consistent naming conventions for catalog sources

AI Chatbot for Support

A nice-to-have would be some autocorrecting function if a user slightly misspells the key word they are looking for

Autocorrect in search bar

Requested Timeframe: 2015 - 2025Broken down by: Zipcode, gender

Shelby County Birth Rates by Zip Code

For point data, add variables to associate each data point with geographies of interest: census tract, zip code, city council district, county commission district, State house and senate district. Some of the files do include some geographies but the specifics seem to vary across the data files - should just be a matter of a nice geocoding script to make all the files interoperable. This would also facilitate the production of reports of key metrics for each geography (profiles of one’s City Council district, etc).

Tie all point data to consistent geographies of interest

Some of the data sources are Census under the hood – going direct to Census allows more flexibility for geography – one script can get you data by tract, ZCTA, city, etc.

DMS Data Portal

More raw census data

Our previous tool yielded tons of user feedback regarding lag time, delays, broken filters, and a lack of user friendliness when navigating the tool. Starting in Jan 2025, we will be transitioning the Memphis Property Hub to a new home.

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Migration: Memphis Property Hub

Field names and variable descriptions are very easy to overlook the “Expand” button to see Data Schema (and most users won’t understand that’s what “Data Schema” means)

Make data dictionary more discoverable

For external sources in ODS catalog, add links to parent agency website (ex: Shelby County Health Dept for the Healthier Shelby entry)

Add links to parent agency website

Clearly label data catalog items that go to external sites — I was confused why there was no data in the entry until someone explained to me that Data Midsouth contains hosted dataset and links to external websites with valuable data tools.

Clearly label data catalog items that go to external sites

user-friendly field name descriptions for popup on a specific parcel, consider limiting to most relevant fields for the average user

Fix popups to use user-friendly field name descriptions only

Make FAQs font/design more consistent and visually appealing like the rest of the site. Also the images are really grainy.

Better FAQ page

Confused about why some data sources don’t show up on “Create Map” feature - is there any way to show that it’s because some data sets aren’t geocoded?

Not allowed to make map out of dataset with geometry

On Felt evictions dashboard and underlying data source in ODS, it looks like we are missing some fields for 2018-2020 about property characteristics/land use codes. Need to add these or add clear caveats so people understand why some values or null or filters don’t do anything.

Address Missing Land Use Codes - Shelby County Evictions Dataset & Map

A nice feature may be to be able to sort the data by available unit of analysis, similar to what Kids Count (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://datacenter.aecf.org/data?location=TN#TN">https://datacenter.aecf.org/data?location=TN#TN</a>) does where you can sort by varying levels of geography.

Sort catalog by available unit of analysis

<pre><code>County-level data helps highlight important trends across Tennessee, including employment growth, economic mobility, and housing affordability: https://www.thinktennessee.org/state-of-our-counties/#dashboard_top</code></pre>