Interactive dashboards translating complex public datasets into visual, navigable formats built for economic developers, site selectors, and business leaders — not data scientists.
The Data for Development series was built around a simple observation: economic developers love data, but the data is hard to find, expensive to get, and even harder to turn into actionable insights. These dashboards compile sources across BLS, Census, EIA, NCES, EPA, and other public agencies — crunched, visualized, and made interactive so you can get to the answer without spending a week in Excel.
Each dashboard tackles one of the top location decision factors identified in Area Development's annual survey of corporate executives and site consultants. The question each one answers is the same question your clients are asking.
Every dashboard in this series draws on publicly available data from federal agencies — BLS, Census, EIA, EPA, NCES, and others. The methodology mirrors the analytical frameworks used in major consulting engagements, made self-serve and free.
The series is ongoing. New dashboards covering additional location factors — infrastructure, industry strengths, competitiveness — are in development.