Example of results with the galaxy NGC 257. Top: composite SDSS image of the galaxy. Middle: line-of-sight dispersion profile. A rainbow color code is used to highlight the common spaxel centroids inside the adaptive radial rings. The shaded area represents the standard deviation of σ_los inside each adaptive ring. Red open circles represent the azimuthally average of σ_los within each radial ring. The thick blue line indicates the azimuthally average of the dispersion model done with . The vertical dashed line shows the radius R = R_e. The last spaxel is not part of any ring and is not used in the modeling of the dispersion ellipsoid. Bottom: profile of azimuthal anisotropy parameter (filled circles) and polynomial fits to the profile (shaded area, see text for details). Starred symbols indicate the values interpolated at R∕h = 0.5, 1, 2 (from the polynomial fits), open diamond and squares at the effective radii of the bulge (R = R_b) and of the galaxy (R = R_e). A dashed line indicates the azimuthal anisotropy expected by the epicyclic approximation from the circular velocity curve of the galaxy.