{
  "id": 17766603,
  "title": "Your city chart can name a filter that never took effect",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/your-city-chart-can-name-a-filter-that-never-took-effect",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-02T08:05:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/dataspryva/your-city-chart-can-name-a-filter-that-never-took-effect-48kb"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The report analyzes a filter in a city chart that may not have taken effect. It highlights a discrepancy between the city label on the chart and the actual filter applied. The filter can be set through a dropdown or an ID override, and if both are used, the chart may display misleading data. The report suggests querying the correct geography or labeling the query accurately to avoid confusion. It also points out that the labels may describe overlapping areas, so the comparison might not be a partition of the data. The report further explains that the location menu presents broad areas with their constituents at the same level, making it easy to choose an option but also dangerous for accurate reporting. It recommends preserving the selector decision alongside the pull and documenting how the selection was interpreted to avoid losing critical information.",
  "summary": "Your regional seller chart can carry a city label for a filter that never took effect. You're preparing the comparison, and DKI Jakarta looks perfectly respectable above a bar. The awkward question is whether that label came from the submitted dropdown or from the location selector that actually governed the query. cityId overrides city in the Actor's explicit location inputs. If you preserve the…",
  "key_points": [
    "City chart reports a filter that never took effect",
    "Discrepancy between city label and actual filter applied",
    "Querying correct geography avoids misleading data"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Misaligned labels and overlapping geographic categories undermine data integrity by allowing users to inadvertently report incorrect information when dropdown selections conflict with underlying query overrides.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}