New Features - November 14, 2011

Features & Bug Fixes in betaDataFerrett

 

FEATURES

• DataFerrett has interleaved American Community Survey 5-year Summary File (ACS 5-year SF) Margins of Error (MOE) variables with estimate variables

  DataFerrett now interleaves ACS 5-year Summary File Margin of Error (MOE) variables with estimate variables during extractions/tabulations. Previously, the MOE variables were displayed in the variable selection list and should have been part of the output, similar to how data flags work.

BUG FIXES

• American Community Survey 5-year Summary File (ACS 5-year SF) extractions are now sorted by geography

  Users will now always get a GEOID variable included in their ACS 5-year SF extractions, and the extraction file is sorted on that variable.

• Mapping now works correctly when the table has variance information

  Previously, maps did not work correctly when variances were displayed but worked when the variances were hidden. Now maps can be created while variances are displayed, but be aware that the map is being created based on the estimates and not the variances.

• Auto totals turned OFF by default for aggregate data

  The user will still be able to turn on the Auto totalling in the DataFerrett tabulation window (Options menu), but the default for aggregate datasets will be OFF.

• Variances for summed totals now work

  The calculations for summed estimate variables now work.

• Variances for summed totals now work

  The calculations for summed estimates variances now work.

• Fixed issue which prevented multiple arithmetic operations of the same precedence from being done in the definition for the Multi Variable Recode

  Previously, the multi-variable recode of aggregate data did not work if you added (summed) more than two variables. Two variables added (summed) worked fine, but then three or more were summed, the user would receive an error message when trying to tabulate.

• Fixed an issue where formulas created at the end of the table overwrote the last non-formula column.

  When the user would place a series of variables in the columns and then try to create a formula (sum) in the next available column, the last column (immediately to the left of the formula column) would get overwritten with the data from the formula column.

• Fixed but preventing PDF generation from working correctly when variances are displayed

  When the user would attempt to create a PDF, an error message would pop up and/or the PDF would be reported corrupt and would not open.