What's New - March 2023

New Features

ATTOM API V4

A new version of ATTOM API has been released. This involves the adoption of new data sources for community (air quality, climate, crime, and demographics), points of interest, and schools. ATTOM API V4 is also adopting a new system of geocoding for geographic areas, affecting almost every one of the 41 endpoints that make up ATTOM API. We have established that the changes will only affect 10% of our API customers, and they have been contacted directly about the changes.

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Boundary Endpoint

ATTOM API has been extended with a new endpoint that returns the shape of boundaries. The geography type for which boundaries are available include:

CO - County
CS - County subdivision
DB - School District
N1 - Macro Neighborhood
N2 - Neighborhood
N3 - Sub-neighborhood
N4 - Residential subdivisions
PL - Place
PZ - Zip code
SB - School Attendance Area
ST - State
ZI - Zip code tabulation area

Example:

https://https://api.gateway.attomdata.com/v4/area/boundary/detail?geoIdV4=18beeb6403fe1c33b8b377e6ee7a44fe

Default Starting Page

We know by monitoring how people use ATTOM Cloud that different groups make use of very different features. To cater for this we are pleased to announce a new feature that allows you to nominate where in ATTOM Cloud you would like to start. The options being made available are:-

Home Page (default)- For those of you who don't have one specific starting place
Property Navigator - Tor those whose primary usage of ATTOM CLoud is to access property reports
SQL Editor - For those using ATTOM CLoud to run SQL queries against our ATTOM Cloud property database

To change your default starting (landing) page

Go to your User Profile
Select the desired value for Starting Page from the dropdown
Click on Save

Save as CSV File

Since launching ATTOM Cloud the most frequently received request has been the ability to save the results of a query as a CSV file when using ATTOM Cloud's lightweight SQL Editor. We are pleased to announce the addition of an ability to save the results of queries ion CSV, XLSX, and JSON formats.

Run a SQL Query in the SQL Editor
When the query has run select the table option (this reruns the query in a new window)
When the query reruns, click on the download icon (top right) and select the download format

View Sample Analytics

ATTOM has started to make starter kits available as part of solution packs. One of the formats used for starter kits is Tableau. Previously it had been possible to download the Tableau workbook to your own computer so the starter kit can be loaded into Tabluea. This requires a Tableau license in order to view the starter kit. For those of you without Tabluea but interested in seeing the data visualizations included in these starter kits, we have added a new view options that links to visualizations hosted on the Tableau Public we site (https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/attomcloud)

Quality of Life

Analytics Icons

With the number of starter kits and sample analytics expanding, we are adding new icons to help you quickly identify the analytics products used to implement each example. We now have icons for the following products: -

Excel
Jupyter Notebooks
Power BI
Tableau

Page Titles

The title for the ATTOM Cloud page(s) in your browser will now detail the tool or solution pack being used within ATTOM Cloud rather than just "ATTOM Cloud".

Solution Packs

Foreclosure Analytics

A new solution pack has been added for foreclosure analytics. This solution pack tatgets projects involving the analysis of trends or anomalies in foreclosures within states, counties, or zipcodes. See the Solution Catalog for more details.

Bugs

Sometimes in a rush to deliver new features and enhancements, we allow bugs to creep into the code. We're pretty sure there are a lot more that haven't yet been found, but of those that have been discovered by our customers or the team here at ATTOM, the following are some that we believe we have squashed this month.

Displaying Database Schema

The lightweight SQL editor provided as part of ATTOM Cloud includes a schema with details about the many tables that make up our property data. The schema itself is stored as a SQL table inside the ATTOM Cloud database. Unfortunately, our security model was sometimes preventing users from being able to view the schema. We have updated the security for this table to minimize the chances something gets in the way of you being able to view the schema.