Frequently Asked Questions

What is "bin 0"?

When an outage color table is selected in App Settings, there will be an attribute or column, depending on whether you select JSON or CSV output, called color_bin with a value corresponding to the range of numbers shown. For example, one available color table is defined as follows:

• 1: 0-100, 2: 101-500, 3: 501-1999, 4: 2000-9999, 5: 10000+

With this color table selected, a county-equivalent having 1500 customers without power at a given time stamp would have its color_bin value set to 3. This allows you to assign a certain color to each value of color_bin in your on-air weather graphics system. In this color table, a county-equivalent with no reported power outages would have a color_bin value of 1.

There are also color tables where bin 1 starts at a nonzero value, such as the following:

• 1: 1-100, 2: 101-500, 3: 501-1999, 4: 2000-9999, 5: 10000+

This color table can be used when you consider outage counts less than the lowest value in bin 1, which in this case is 1, insignificant. With this color table selected, any county-equivalent with no reported power outages will have a color_bin value of 0.