Release Notes
Latest developments on our data communication solution.
Release 05.14.2019
What’s New
New data set: Average Airline Fares from the US Department of Transportation.
New indicator: Poverty: by Disability from ACS table S1811.
Fixed
Corrected the SAMHSA NSDUH data from calendar years to fiscal years.
Fixed a problem that prevented picking certain combinations of dimension instance filters.
Hover text now shows exact values rather than sometimes using scientific notation.
Release 04.30.2019
What’s New
New data set: Average Airline Fares from the US Department of Transportation.
New indicator: Deaths of Despair from CDC WONDER: Causes of Death.
New data set: Linked Birth / Infant Death Records from CDC WONDER.
New indicator: Suboptimal Housing from ACS table B25123.
New data set: Walkability Index from the US EPA.
Fixed
Fixed a problem that prevented selecting some counties in states with large numbers of counties.
Release 04.16.2019
What’s New
Added information about the LiveStories version of each indicator to the “About this Indicator” screen.
New indicator: Year Structure Built from ACS table DP04.
New data set: The California Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboard from the California Department of Public Health.
Fixed
Fixed a problem with charts not drawing correctly using Internet Explorer 11.
Fixed a problem that caused a chart that was placed in a story via a dashboard to appear blank.
Fixed a problem that sometime caused line chart benchmark labels to draw over the top of other labels.
Fixed a problem with the filter picker that prevented selecting certain combinations of nested filters.
Release 04.02.2019
What’s New
Added census tract data for all ACS S- and DP- tables.
New indicator: Total and Percent of Workers 16-64 Who Worked Full-Time, Year-Round from ACS table S2303.
New indicator: Weekly Hours Worked from BLS Current Employment Statistics.
New indicator: Hourly Earnings from BLS Current Employment Statistics.
New indicator: Veterans from ACS table S2101.
New indicator: Population with a Disability from ACS table S1801.
New indicator: Obesity Prevalence from the CDC County Data Indicators.
New indicator: Social & Economic Factors from County Health Rankings.
New indicator: Teenagers Not in School or Labor Force from ACS table S0902.
New data set: US Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP) from the CDC.
New indicator: Population: by Urbanicity from the US Decennial Census.
Fixed
Corrected a scaling issue with metadata for ACS table B25070.
Fixed another problem that sometimes caused quarterly labels to display dates as “201403” instead of “Mar 2014” on some charts.
Fixed a problem with the time picker that sometimes presented years not present in the data set, and omitted years that are present.
Fixed a problem with the “Compare Across” picker that incorrectly prevented some combinations.
Fixed significant figure usage in value chart and donut chart.
Corrected a scaling issue with metadata for ACS table B05010.
Relocated the “kebab” menu so it doesn’t interfere so much with the underlying chart.
Fixed a problem that prevented the time picker selection from being honored.
Fixed the way units and scale are combined when labeling charts. Now correctly shows “60B Dollars” instead of “60M Thousands of Dollars”.
Downloading a story as a pdf will never again cause a “took too long to respond” error.
Release 03.19.2019
What’s New
New indicator: Selected Characteristics of Health Insurance Coverage from ACS table S2701.
Mosaic portals now support downloading charts as PNG.
New data set: Patient Origin/Market Share - Inpatient, Emergency Department, and Ambulatory Surgery from the California Health and Human Services Agency.
New data set: Hospital Inpatient - Characteristics by Facility from the California Health and Human Services Agency.
Added a new chart type, the measure value chart, for showing single numbers and direction of most-recent change.
Fixed
Renamed Pakistan province “Federal Capital Territory” to “Islamabad Capital Territory.”
Fixed a problem where some table views did not display all rows.
Corrected the year attribution of data sets from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics Labour Force data.
Fixed a problem with Internet Explorer 11 drawing maps containing locations with apostrophes in their names.
Corrected some ACS metadata representing median values.
Put the name of the location back into auto-generated chart titles.
Release 03.05.2019
What’s New
New data set: Utilization of Selected Medical Procedures from the California Health and Human Services Agency.
New data set: Inpatient Medical Procedures from the California Health and Human Services Agency.
New data set: US Opioid Prescribing Rate Maps from the CDC.
Fixed
Fixed a problem that sometimes caused quarterly labels to display dates as “201403” instead of “Mar 2014”.
The story summary field is now empty by default when a new story is created.
Fixed a problem that prevented charts in portals from being downloaded as .csv files.
Fixed a problem that caused some portal tiles to incorrectly display “No data for this selection.”
Fixed a problem with ACS Table B01001 where the dimensions were swapped.
Brought back ACS Table B19083, the Gini Index of Income Inequality.
Fixed a problem where map chart colors draw over the top of labels. The labels are now always above the colors.
Release 02.19.2019
What’s New
Added additional indicators to the data set California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) from the California Department of Education.
The story author can now control the presence or absence of the explanatory footer on charts.
Fixed
Fixed a problem that prevented charts from being downloaded as .PNG files.
Value chart arrows now work correctly when the data series contains negative values.
Release 02.05.2019
What’s New
Added 2017 data to the ACS.
Added 2017 data to the CDC Wonder mortality data.
Added Drug Overdose Deaths indicator to the CDC Wonder mortality data.
Time picker now allows selection of “most recent” time period. This allows construction of charts that will auto-update when new data is published.
Fixed
Corrected quarterly SME finance data from the State Bank of Pakistan to use source dates as quarter end rather than quarter start.
Fixed a problem where chart titles sometimes overlapped with the top of the y-axis.
Fixed a problem that caused grouped bar chart tick mark labels to improperly truncate.
Fixed a problem that cut off some horizontal bar chart x-axis labels.
Release 01.22.2019
What’s New
New data set: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) from the California Department of Education.
New data set: County Health Status Profiles from the California Department of Public Health.
Fixed
Fixed an issue that prevented custom ordering of certain bar charts.
Corrected data filtering behavior when filtering on the compared dimension.
Release 12.25.2018
What’s New
New data set: Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey.
New indicators based on ACS tables:
S0101
S1501
S1701
S2301
S2503
DP03
DP04
DP05
Added new Average Annual Pay measures to the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages data set.
New data set: Illinois Report Card from the Illinois Board of Education.
New data set: CURES from the California Department of Justice.
Fixed
Two-dimensional charts now always display the two chosen dimensions in the intended order.
Corrected the layout of the grouped bar chart so that the legend is always visible.
The line chart now correctly highlights only the intended lines.
Navigation anchors now work correctly in conjunction with custom headers.
Corrected a problem that prevented adding charts from dashboards to stories.
Added missing dimensions to ACS indicator Employment: by Sex, Usual Hours, and Weeks Worked.
Release 12.11.2018
What’s New
New indicators based on ACS table S0801: “Travel Time to Work: by Sex” and “Transportation to Work: by Sex.”
New data set: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRED Economic Research - Migration
New data set: Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics.
New data set: Bureau of the Census Quarterly Workforce Indicators.
Fixed
Corrected a problem with line chart highlights.
The barbell chart, bubble chart, and heat map chart now use the correct number of significant figures for axis labels.
The barbell chart time period legend now works correctly on IE11 and Edge.
The barbell chart now gracefully handles long labels.
The barbell chart now handles labels correctly when there are many rows.
Release 11.27.2018
What’s New
New data set: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRED Economic Research
Added additional Major Occupation dimension to BLS OES indicators.
New indicator: Labor Force added to BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics.
New data set: Gross Sales Taxes from the Illinois Department of Revenue.
New data set: Sales and Related Taxes from the Illinois Department of Revenue.
New data set: US State Patenting by Region from the US Department of Commerce.
New data set: County Business Patterns from the US Bureau of the Census.
Fixed
Downloading chart data as CSV works for all chart configurations.
Fixed a problem that prevented certain CSV files from correctly uploading.
Corrected some dimensions in the State Bank of Pakistan Branchless Banking data set.
Corrected some observations in Teledensity indicator from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority.
Fixed a problem that caused stories hosted in custom domains to render some charts incorrectly.
Corrected some observations in Mobile Money Usage indicator from Financial Inclusion Insights.
Fixed a problem that caused some maps to display a message saying “Missing Mapbox GL JS CSS.”
Bar charts now draw correctly on IE11 and Edge.
Release 11.13.2018
What’s New
New Consumer Complaints indicator added to data set: Telecom indicators from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority.
Added CBSA data to the Bureau of Economic Analysis REA GDP indicators.
Fixed
Indicator Outstanding Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) Financing now includes all dimension instances.
Indicator Literacy from Labour Force Statistics now correctly shows the breakdown between rural, urban, and total.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority indicator Broadband Subscribers now includes data for the total across all technologies.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority indicator Telecom Investment now correctly shows units as US Dollars.
The filter editor now prompts you to save your changes if you press the back button while unsaved changes are pending.
Grouped bar chart bars now have a maximum width.
The map chart now zooms properly to show exactly the selected data.
Indicator Accounts by Province in Branchless Banking now includes data for the total across all provinces.
Release 10.30.2018
What’s New
Map charts now can zoom in to show streets.
Fixed
Map charts now show census places correctly.
Map charts now show boundaries and “no data” hover text for map regions with no data.
Stories now render using Internet Explorer 11.
The horizontal bar chart now correctly displays benchmarks.
The story edit now correctly auto-saves all text edits.
Release 10.17.2018
What’s New
New data set: FBI Uniform Crime Reports
Fixed
Table charts now use all their allotted space when placed in stories.
Line charts now handle very long labels sensibly.
Release 10.02.2018
What’s New
New data set: State Bank of Pakistan Agricultural Loans.
New data set: California Health and Human Services Breastfeeding Initiative.
Fixed
Data sets larger than 1MB now upload correctly.
The heading on the indicator browser page now shows the correct date range for the selected indicators.
The radar chart now correctly draws data series containing exactly one data point.
The line chart now correctly draws data series containing exactly one data point.
A user who has been invited but not yet registered who tries to reset a password will now receive a new emailed invitation.
The hover behavior for the radar chart has changed to show only the value of the selected data point instead of the entire series.
The hover behavior for the line chart has changed to show only the value of the selected data point instead of the entire series.
When navigating back to the indicator browser via the browser back button, previously selected filters now remain selected.
Release 9.18.2018
What’s New
New data set: California Health and Human Services Agency Medi-Cal Dental Measures.
New data set: California Health and Human Services Agency Medi-Cal Certified Eligible Counts.
New data set: California Health and Human Services Agency Physicians and Surgeons by Gender.
New data set: California Health and Human Services Agency Hospital Emergency Department Patient Characteristics.
Updated data set: The CDC Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System data now includes 2017 data.
Fixed
The spelling of data set names is now cleaned up and standardized.
The measure names given as choices for what to view in the chart editor are now clearer and have had redundancy removed.
Release 9.4.2018
What’s New
The auto-update feature for Google Sheets has been modified to update twice a day, now at midnight and 7AM pacific time.
You can now embed Tableau visualizations in LiveStories.
Fixed
Hovering over a bar on a horizontal bar chart now always shows a comparison.
The location filter picker now correctly shows all US Census “places.”
Saved charts now always show all the locations they are configured to show.
When a bar in a bar chart has a value of 0, it will now be labeled and will show hover text.
When a line in a line chart has all values of 0, it will now render.
Bubble charts now correctly display negative values.
Column sums now round correctly.
When saving a chart to a new story, the screen will now properly refresh.
All charts in published stories can now be downloaded as .png and shared via Twitter.
Line chart x-axis labels now always label the endpoint tick marks.
What’s New
The auto-update feature for Google Sheets has been modified to update twice a day, now at midnight and 7AM pacific time.
You can now embed Tableau visualizations in LiveStories.
Fixed
Hovering over a bar on a horizontal bar chart now always shows a comparison.
The location filter picker now correctly shows all US Census “places.”
Saved charts now always show all the locations they are configured to show.
When a bar in a bar chart has a value of 0, it will now be labeled and will show hover text.
When a line in a line chart has all values of 0, it will now render.
Bubble charts now correctly display negative values.
Column sums now round correctly.
When saving a chart to a new story, the screen will now properly refresh.
All charts in published stories can now be downloaded as .png and shared via Twitter.
Line chart x-axis labels now always label the endpoint tick marks.
Release 8.21.2018
What’s New
Charts now communicate when selected data is not present.
Fixed
All percentage measures now properly display a range of 0-100.
Location filter choices are now honored by all chart types.
CSAs and MSAs can now be selected from the whole country, not just a single state at a time.
All maps can now be downloaded as PNG.
Release 8.07.2018
What’s New
New data set: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.
Modified data set: CDC fluoridation status for Texas now uses new definition of “optimally fluoridated.”
Hovering over a data point on a line chart now also displays the x-axis label.
Fixed
Bar chart bars now have a maximum width.
LiveStories City Public Health report and Opioid Report no longer hang the web browser.
Changing the focal location now correctly changes the old location to the new location, instead of adding the new location to the old one.
Source name for the Refugee Arrival Data data set is now correctly “Office of Refugee Resettlement.”
Map legends now render correctly.
When displayed in a selection list, city names and county names now also include state name for disambiguation.
Various hyperlinks now support the browser’s context menu (for example, Open in New Tab, Open in New Window).
When picking a Google Sheet to upload as a data set, only Google Sheets are presented as possibilities.
Release 7.24.2018
What’s New
New data set: County Health Rankings from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps.
New data set: CDC fluoridation status for Texas.
New data set: Pakistan labor force statistics from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
New data set: Pakistan payment systems data from the State Bank of Pakistan.
Fixed
Downloading a story as a pdf no longer gives a “took too long to respond” error.
The filter panel on the left side of the indicator browser now scrolls properly.
Census tract maps for California and Texas now render correctly.
Hover text hot spot on line chart x-axis is now larger and easier to hit.
Indicators with data from non-consecutive years are now displayed correctly.
All data sets can now be correctly previewed.
Line chart legends and x-axis labels no longer overlap.
The featured indicator on the indicator browser page now links through to a chart.
Release: 7.10.2017
What's New
New indicator: CDC Wonder: Motor Vehicle Accidents.
New data set: USDA Food Access Research Atlas 2015, for census tract.
New data set: BLS Occupational Employment Statistics.
Drawing the x-axis of various charts now includes major and minor tick marks, and hover text that shows the label for each tick mark.
Links to Esri maps now always use https.
Links to YouTube videos always suppress YouTube’s showing suggested videos.
Fixed
The year choices presented when choosing a date range are now always in chronological order.
All ACS indicators now correctly show 5-year estimates for 2011-2015 and 2012-2016, when available.
Rendering a published story with Internet Explorer 11 will no longer sometimes cause a blank page.
Sorting a stacked bar chart in descending order now correctly sorts.
The donut chart now always renders correctly and also shows error data, when available.
The button to show more details about an indicator is now an info icon.
The year filter in the indicator browser now shows only the years available in the indicators.
Quarterly time period labels now render correctly in Firefox.
Pakistani rupees are now labeled as PKR.
“Non-Bank Financial Institutions: Accounts” indicator is now properly represented as a percentage.
Rendering a chart that has been added to a dashboard or a story will no longer sometimes cause a blank chart.
Months are now labeled correctly in a downloaded CSV file.
Census place names are now user-friendly (for example, “Chicago” instead of “Chicago city”).
Maps now render correctly in downloaded PDFs.
When the target location changes, the benchmark choices now correctly sync.
All source dimensions are now present on all BRFSS indicators.
The “No data for this selection” placard no longer temporarily appears when viewing indicators that do have data.
Findex data now renders correctly on a world map.
The radar chart now correctly handles negative values.
Navigation anchors are now consistently referred to as navigation anchors.
In the indicator browser, the indicator cards now always correctly show the available dates.
When the target location changes, filter settings are now preserved.
Story URLs no longer ever contain tokens.
Income dimensions now sort properly.
Release: 6.19.2018
What’s New
The Data Library indicator browser “Source” menu now shows both sources and data sets.
New data sets:
USDA Food Environment Atlas 2015, for county and state.
National Survey on Drug Use and Health from SAMHSA.
Global Findex Database 2017 from the World Bank.
Pakistan census data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
Pakistan data from Financial Inclusion Insights.
Quarterly Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Financing from the State Bank of Pakistan.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Indicators.
Fixed
Tables in stories no longer cause errors or render as blank spaces.
Repeatedly selecting the same chart type will not cause the chart to grow in size.
Bar charts with custom ordering now always preserve and honor the custom ordering.
The Social Vulnerability Index indicators now show data from any available location.
Line charts now always show labels for the charted data.
Copying a story containing custom data sets will no longer cause errors or render blank spaces.
Donut charts no longer have scrollbars when placed in stories.
Users can now set the maximum height on a chart with two y axes.
Google search results now show text from the story summary.
Benchmarking choices now show states by name, not as “undefined.”
Users can now download a map chart as a PNG.
“Add Chart to Story” list of candidate stories no longer includes stories in the trash.
After you edit a chart by changing the data set, the “Save” button will not disappear.
Charts now correctly handle negative values.
Release: 6.05.2018
What's New
Added a new chart type for the Data Library: radar chart (aka spider chart).
Fixed
CSV files can now be downloaded from a map chart.
Renamed “country” to “nation" to avoid confusion with "county."
Renamed “Combined CBSA” to “Combined Statistical Area."
“Select Neighboring Counties” now works for all counties.
Download PNG and CSV functionality is now present when editing a chart inside a story.
Data Library charts no longer have scrollbars when embedded in SquareSpace.
“About this Indicator” card now only shows a “More…” link if there is more information available.
Release: 5.22.2018
Fixed
After providing a custom ordering for chart labels, the ordering now persists. Changing the custom ordering will not cause the old ordering to reset.
Grouped bar chart x-axis label is now the name of the displayed dimension.
Y-axis measure label no longer overlaps the y-axis legend labels.
Data Library charts do not have scrollbars when placed in stories.
It is now possible to clone a story containing a Data Library chart.
Long legend labels now wrap instead of truncating.
“About this Indicator” now shows correct metadata.
Release: 5.7.2018
What’s New:
Data library charts can now be edited directly after they have been placed in stories.
Data library charts now support showing multiple dimensions—such as different races, or different age groups, or different income levels—on a single chart.
Data library charts now support error bars (when error data is available).
The data library has been reorganized: indicator names are now more natural, and dimensions are properly structured. All of the old data and metadata is still present, and existing stories will work as-is with no changes.
Added a new chart type for the data library: full-featured table.
Added a new chart type for the data library: grouped bar chart.
American Community Survey (ACS) data is now current through 2016.
ACS data now has full geographical resolution—down to census tract.
ACS data now includes 1-year estimates along with 5-year estimates.
Fixed:
Rate measures no longer allow choice of donut chart.
Opioid chart titles no longer have extraneous words.
Selecting responses on BRFSS indicators that have more complex options than yes/no now works as expected.
Map legend is easier to read.
Control over chart axis labels are now part of the chart, not part of sharing.
Charts in stories now grow vertically to fill allotted space.
Chart y-axis now has unit labels.
Indicator metadata now informs choice of chart types.
Map timeline no longer overlaps legend on mobile.
When the x-axis of a line chart is a date, users can now chart multiple lines.
Animation speed is now faster.
“Add chart to story” is now highlighted on the UI as the primary workflow.
If users choose a combination of dimensions and location that have no observations, they will see a message indicating that there is no data for that combination.
Downloaded library CSV files no longer use internal LiveStories encodings.
Barbell, heat, and bubble charts now show benchmarks.
Line charts using county data can now benchmark against the U.S. value.
Number formatting is now consistent across chart types.
Highlight now highlights the label and the bar, not just the bar.
Initial map view now zooms to show all compared cities.
Map legend color choices and viewed data now match.
Bar charts now support highlighting multiple bars.