Data communication
CarolinaTracker
This project tracked North Carolina’s economic recovery post-pandemic in 2020-2021 using different economic and social datasets and communicated the stories of recovery using data stories and a data dashboard.
https://carolinatracker.unc.edu/
I contributed to developing indicators, gathering and processing data, and writing data stories.
- We developed indicators of economic recovery relevant to North Carolina based on public and private datasets we could access. I contributed by developing an indicator for rental listing, participating in discussions on finding and selecting indicators, and co-developing normalization guidelines for the indicators.
- I wrote scripts to gather data from multiple sources, summarize big data to usable form, scrape data on daily rental listings from Craigslist, and process unstructured text data to create tabular datasets among others.
- I wrote a data story on the post-pandemic recovery of online job advertisements.
- I co-authored a research paper on Socio-economic disparities in activity-travel behavior adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic in North Carolina published in Transport Policy (May 2022).
This project was supported by the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with funding from the North Carolina Coronavirus Relief Fund established and appropriated by the North Carolina General Assembly.