Welcome

Here you'll find step-by-step guides, best practices, and troubleshooting tips to help you make the most of Data Midsouth (DMS).

Getting started: Find and Use Local Data

Data Midsouth is a public data hub for Memphis and Shelby County. It’s built for community members—neighbors, advocates, students, parents, journalists, researchers, and anyone trying to understand what’s happening in our city.

This page explains how to use Data Midsouth to find, understand, and use data—even if you’ve never worked with “data” before.

Use the search bar at the top of this page or the table of contents to your left to quickly find answers to your questions.

What's Data Midsouth?

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Tour the Interface

Get acquainted with the features that make navigation easy.

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Discover DMS

The Data Midsouth portal is organized around four types of data assets.

Here's a quick snapshot of what you'll find:

Raw data - Structured, clean datasets you can download and analyze in Excel, Google Sheets, QGIS, Python, or any other tool.
Visualizations - Interactive charts, maps, and dashboards you can explore directly in your browser.
Mega Data - Interactive visualizations and applications that cover an especially deep and/or wide range of topics
Reports - PDFs and documents produced by local partners that detail research, analyses, and community assessments.

For more information, visit Data asset types.