Every answer the DataWorks Commons assistant gives is produced by named, documented tools working over real, loaded data — never free recollection. This catalog is generated from the tool registry itself, so it always matches what is running.
Finds the datasets and indicators the DataWorks Commons holds for a topic, so answers are grounded in real, loaded data.
When a request is genuinely ambiguous, asks one short question back as clickable options plus a describe-your-own box, instead of guessing.
Fetches the actual values of an indicator for a place, over time when asked, and renders the trend chart.
Computes per-capita rates for one or more places and charts them side by side over time.
Ranks states, counties, cities, metros, ZIP codes, or tracts by an indicator, with per-capita rates and coverage honesty.
Compares a place to similar-sized (or nearby) peers on the metrics you name.
Builds a table of an indicator - raw values, computed rates, growth, or demographic breakdowns - across every place in an area.
Shades an indicator across the places inside an area - counties of a state, tracts of a city.
Plots two indicators against each other across an area's places to show how they move together.
Scores a city's census tracts by concentrated need - a composite of poverty, income, vacancy, and uninsured rates.
Shows how an indicator has moved over time for a single census tract.
Explains what an indicator measures and exactly where and when it has data, read from the data model - never guessed.
Lists the datasets loaded in the DataWorks Commons, with their sources and coverage.
Groups the raw records behind an aggregate (by year, month, tract, or category) for datasets that carry row-level data.
Proposes the contextual indicators most relevant to a why-question; the system then fetches and charts them.
Measures how a subject varies with a factor across a city's census tracts, with a side-by-side tract map.
Reads a city's City+ page as data: the bright-spots / needs-attention / big-shifts triage, or one indicator's full card - peer table, neighborhood change, breakdown by group, and peers worth a call.