Interactive Analysis April 29, 2026
Below the Line 2026
Rebuilding the original poverty analysis with expanded metrics, peer-city baselines, and careful notes on COVID-era data quality.
Snow routes
Winter operations
Library access
OCPL and branches
Neighborhoods
Block-level field notes
City systems
Services, OKRs, and open data
Featured work
Useful ways into Syracuse.
Six projects about the public systems, places, and questions that matter here. Each starts with a local question and shows its work.
Interactive Report
Poverty Data
Below the Line 2026
An updated look at Syracuse poverty, housing, education, work, transportation, broadband access, and peer-city change since the original report.
Peer cities
Source notes
PDF report
Read the report →
Live map
Snow
Syracuse Snow Map
See where plows have been and follow snow-removal progress across Syracuse residential streets.
Map
Operations
Explore the map →
Interactive data
Libraries
Census Data by Library Location
Compare the communities around Onondaga County library locations using Census data and library context.
OCPL
Demographics
Explore the data →
Service-request guide
Civic Services
Cityline Workaround App
Describe a city-service problem in plain language and find the closest currently available Cityline request path.
Service requests
Live categories
Open the guide →
Property research
Property Data
Syracuse Property Atlas
Explore a Syracuse parcel with city records, neighborhood context, mapping data, and clearly marked gaps.
Parcels
ACS
Neighborhood context
Explore a property →
Water infrastructure
Syracuse Water Main Risk Explorer
A transparent public-data model for examining which street segments were most likely to have a recorded water-main break in a given year.
Street segments
Test results
Limitations
View the project →
More from DataCuse
Earlier projects and experiments.
Work that remains available for reference, without competing with the current project desk.
Field notes
Deep dives and build notes.
Long-form analyses from the local data stack, kept close to the project pages they explain.
Library Data May 2026
OCPL Library Use Story
A public reporting page that turns the latest city library dashboard into a readable civic data story.
Launch Essay March 21, 2026
Introducing Datacuse MCP
How Syracuse open data, OCPL library workflows, and county, state, and federal sources came together in one MCP server.
CITYLINE
Data Analysis December 31, 2025
Cityline Snow Request Analysis
A look at how residents make snow plow service requests to Cityline, even when there is no official option to do so.
About DataCuse
Independent work for a more legible Syracuse.
DataCuse is built by Sam Edelstein, a Syracuse civic technologist and public-board leader. It is an independent project, not an official City of Syracuse or Onondaga County website.
Have a dataset, correction, local question, or idea for a useful tool? Source notes and constructive challenges make this work better.