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Hi, why are the values of the Latitude and Longitude "NULL" in the Assessor History dataset?

In order to get my download sizes under 5% (when downloading data from the Attom Tax Assessor dataset), I was previously using the filter for "MSANAME". However, when I use the exclude filter, it seems to ignore the MSA's I've listed (desired), but also ignore rows that are missing an MSANAME value (not desired, because I'm trying to get a complete universe of data). This either seems like a bug, or like a quirk that is not discussed anywhere, and could lead to incomplete datasets being downloaded. It seems intuitive to me that N/A values should be included when performing an 'exclude X value' filter, or to allow the inclusion/exclusion of N/A values as an additional filter. Is this something that can be addressed?

I've been downloading 5% increments of the Attom Tax Assessor data over the span of several days, but noticed that the column names have inconsistencies between the batches I download. For instance, the Attom ID column is labeled "_ATTOM_ID_" for my Utah sample, but labeled "X_ATTOM_ID_" for my Nevada sample, and labeled "ATTOMID" for my California sample. I also noticed that the property latitude and longitude seemed to be missing from a sample I downloaded covering AZ, CO, ID, and WY (even though I've been selecting all columns to be downloaded).

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Hi Dewey Team,

Did the data vendor give any information on the coverage of the attom recorder data, e.g., how large a fraction of home transactions are covered and whether the coverage differs by locations?

I am exploring ATTOM's Assessor History files. I have downloaded a subset of the data for Cook County, IL, which includes Chicago. The file covers years 2021 and 2022. The variable "sa_owner_1_group", which is supposed to have the name of the owner, is always missing. Is this an error, or a problem with Chicago, or a problem with the years I selected?

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For the School Attendance Boundaries dataset, it says that you must filter the dataset to be below 50% in order to download; however, of the 4 filters, there is not a way to split up the set of regular primary schools in unified districts to be under 50% without painfully listing out a bunch of district names in the DISTRICTNM field. Currently, using these filters: INSTRLEVEL=Primary, SCHOOLTYPE=Regular, DISTLEVEL=Unified --- I can only get it down to 57.87%.