These are notes from the NC EDIS session at NCLA. This session was co-sponsored by the Government Resources Section and BLINC. These notes are rough, but hopefully interesting.
Tammy Lester presented on the NC Economic Development Intelligence System on Thursday, October 8 (Day 2 of NCLA).
- NCEDIS was developed in conjunction with sas, esri, zencos
- can give detailed data to state employees, local employees, and development specialists; state libraries may be able to get some data
- summary statistics are the primary focus
- seamless integration with GIS; use for reporting
- data sources are census, consumer expen, commuting data, crime, weather, education, spatial data, retail potential, some trend analysis, buildings and sites
- goal is to provide good data to public and companies to help them make good decisions about economic choices
- new website will have data type buttons: demographic, business, mapping buttons
- buildings & sites: spatial accuracy will increase; will be able to look at the building using google maps; ready about december 31
- business listings are only for economic developers; can email tammy to get more lists
- focus most on manufacturing (about 12,000 data points)
- in county & state reports: can compare counties using the county profiles; come out as pdfs–> focuses more on the most used data
- county custom allows you to extract data; can choose any variables –> much more detailed data
- crime and weather data are purchased
- also can do by regions and specific counties in regions; regions are economic development regions
- mapping: google map like; can choose data for a point and then create a radius around it; can go 150 miles for radius
- more focused on economic development and more current data than LINC; linc good for one data point and getting detailed info on generation of the data; ncedis more about the info as a package
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