{"id":1219,"date":"2018-04-06T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/data-services.hosting.nyu.edu\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2018-10-30T10:32:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T14:32:06","slug":"nyu-libraries-acquired-neustar-localeze-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/data-services.hosting.nyu.edu\/nyu-libraries-acquired-neustar-localeze-data\/","title":{"rendered":"NYU Libraries Acquires Neustar Localeze Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data Services is excited to announce that we have acquired access to Neustar&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neustarlocaleze.biz\/\">Localeze business location data product<\/a>. Now,\u00a0<strong>NYU students, faculty, and staff<\/strong> can download a single dataset of roughly 16 million individual business locations with geographic identifiers, including latitude and longitude coordinates, and explore them according to a range of firmographic variables. In all, there are over 60 variables, including business size, sales volume, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naics.com\/search\/\">NAICS<\/a> code, and more. Note that this data is available for the purposes of academic research only.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1220\" src=\"http:\/\/data-services.hosting.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/neustar_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/data-services.hosting.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/neustar_logo.png 400w, https:\/\/data-services.hosting.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/neustar_logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/data-services.hosting.nyu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/neustar_logo-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In order to access this data, go to this record in the <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2451\/41731\">Faculty Digital Archive<\/a>\u00a0or search within the NYU Libraries catalog. The record contains a text delimited file of the data and a codebook to interpret the variables. There are instructions on how to create a SQL table with the data, but you may also load it in SPSS, Stata, or other advanced quantitative software packages.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of convenience, and to demonstrate the spatial possibilities for this data, we have created a sample shapefile of all business locations within the borough of Brooklyn. You can access the file within NYU&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/geo.nyu.edu\">Spatial Data Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about accessing or working with this data, don&#8217;t hesitate to contact us at Data Services. You can also see similar business data holdings by browsing the <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.nyu.edu\/vbl\">Virtual Business Library (VBL)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data Services is excited to announce that we have acquired access to Neustar&#8217;s Localeze business location data product. Now,\u00a0NYU students, faculty, and staff can download a single dataset of roughly 16 million individual business locations with geographic identifiers, including latitude and longitude coordinates, and explore them according to a range of firmographic variables. 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