"This dataset includes the daily number of families and individuals residing in the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter system and the daily number of families applying to the DHS shelter system." This data is reported values as of 09/08/2020.

This dataset is orginally published at City of New York Social Services: DHS Daily Report

Data Formatting:

The orginally datasource has been reformatted to make it ready for use in data visualizations in a "normal" formating where each row is unique and each column represents a single attribute, which can be found at this new gist DataVizClassDataset2_DHS_Daily_NEW

Prior to reformating each column represneted a type of person(s) in the shelter a night and the rows represnted the values overtime. In the reformatted data now each row represents a single observation where we created a column called "Type" that represents the type of person(s) in the shelter each night.

Questions/Realted Tasks:

How has the number of adults, children and individuals changed over time? Is one of these always the largest % of the total population in the shelters? -What is the biggest demographic in these shelters and how has it changed or not changed over time?

Attributes most Interesting to me: Since these columns are all relative to the different demographics, the demographic is most interesting to be, i.e if they are a single women, family with children, a child, etc..