Something has changed on Elm Street. The data half-tells the story.
You're an analyst for a small city planning office. Your desk faces a wall of monitors: one has a live dashboard of 311 complaints, one has a foot-traffic heatmap, one has a spreadsheet you haven't opened yet. The overhead lights hum.
Elm Street has been on your radar for three months. Something is shifting there — you can feel it in the numbers before you can name it. Two bodegas closed. A new coffee shop opened. The community forum has gone quiet in a way that could mean satisfaction or could mean people leaving.
Tonight at 7 p.m., you present to the neighborhood council. A council member has already given a quote to the local paper: 'the neighborhood is thriving.' Your job title says 'analyst.' What that actually means gets decided in the next hour.