Why would Industry sales data show a negative?

[CedricCorbett]

Working with the suitability analysis in BA Advanced and some counties show negative values for industry sales data. Any idea of why that would be or the methodology behind that? Picture Below

[HelenThompson · Accepted solution]

Hi Cedric

This is a data type overflow bug, that occurs because the data is in the billions and exceeded the original range. We caught this in most other datasets and will fix this for businesses.
Best wishes

H

[CedricCorbett]

Ahh okay, Thank you Helen! I tested both SIC and NAICS for reference.

[HelenThompson]

Yes - we are fixing this. Applies to large areas where values exceed 999M at the moment as the variable length in our definition is too short.

[CherylHagevik]

@CedricCorbett This issue has been fixed in production. We appreciate your patience and thank you for reporting this issue. 

[CedricCorbett]

Thank you!