Business Analyst Web App - Historical Data

Question

I remember (months ago) seeing historical data was available for many of the data points in the ArcGIS Business Analyst Web Application. However, now that I would like to use that data, it does not seem to be available. I see several blog post type Business Analyst 'updates' referencing Historical Data and it's availability, but that does not seem to be the case now. Can anyone confirm for me that the Historical Data is no longer available, or help me to find it? If it's no longer available, does any one know why, or if it will be made accessible anytime soon?

Thanks,

Kevin

Anonymous User · Answer

Hey @KevinO_Brien ,

One more follow up question for you to tack on with Fasil. Can you share some of the variables that would be most valuable to you, if historical data was made available?

Thanks!

Aaron

FTiru · Answer

I totally agree that this can be useful for other users as well. So I encourage you to add your idea here ArcGIS Ideas so that other BA users can promote it as well.

Thanks,

Fasil

FTiru · Answer

Hi Kevin,

Just discussed this with our data management team and confirmed that we currently don't have plans to make the full set of prior years' data available through the BA web app. However, we will continue to evaluate additional data variables that we can include in the Historical Time Series dataset beyond the currently available total population, households, and housing units. As might know, this functionality is currently available in BA Desktop/Pro with the datasets installed locally.

Thanks,Fasil