Data Tools

• Community Economic Development (CED) HotReport: provides community and business leaders speedy access to information tailored to economic development decision-making. The CED HotReport is a free, easy to use portal to instantly obtain a multi-faceted view of local and regional conditions using graphs, maps, tables and dynamic text. Topics include the economy, transportation, housing, schools, top industries, occupations, and more.
  
  
• QWI Online: Select and find out about NAICS-based or SIC-based Quarterly Workforce Indicators by state, geographic grouping, industry, year and quarter, sex, age group, and ownership.
  
  
• OnTheMap Version 2: The phased release of OnTheMap Version 2 will begin April 15, 2007 and continue until the end of September 2007. See summary sheet here. [PDF; File Size: 96KB]
  
  
• Industry Focus: This tool lets you determine the top industries for your local area and your local workers, focus in on a particular industry to see how it ranks among top industries, and also look at the characteristics of those who work in that industry. See information sheet here for a summary.[PDF; File Size: 112KB]
  
  
• Cornell-based Data Access: The Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) hosts a computational infrastructure in support of the creation of synthetic data. The released Quarterly Workforce Indicators may be accessed a this site, as well as a collection of statistical tools.
  
  
• Case Studies and Examples: Provides examples of how state partners have skinned LED analytic tools to their site, actual uses of the LED data and analytic tools to help make informed decisions, and sample queries (with solutions) that can be addressed by LED data and the analytic tools.
  
  
• e-Learning Modules: These stand-alone e-learning modules, released on a flow basis, have been developed to tell and illustrate use of the LED Web site, QWI Online, Industry Focus and OnTheMap. Each module is about 10 minutes long and features voice-over and animation to display the features of a particular analytic tool, using a relevant scenario.