There have been numerous reports about the severe impact Hurricane Sandy has had on the residents and workers of Staten Island NY.

To assist the community in examining these impacts in detail, NLT has developed an interactive web-based mapping application that combines workforce and population data for Staten Island. The tool, based on ArcGIS Online technology, allows users to quickly visualize the distribution and density of workers and population. To get detailed characteristics about workers, users can simply zoom in and click on one of the blue points. To get details about the population density, users can click on one of the shaded (yellow-red) population areas. 

What types of businesses and industries are affected?

How much do these workers earn in income?

To answer these and other similar questions about the impact of Sandy on the workforce in the Atlantic City area of New Jersey, we developed this handy interactive web-based mapping application.

OnTheMap for Emergency Management Version 3 was released June 15 2012.The public data tool provides an easy-to-use web-based interface for accessing U.S. population and workforce statistics, in real time, for areas being affected by natural disasters.The tool allows users to easily retrieve reports containing detailed workforce, population, and housing characteristics for hurricanes, floods, wildfires, winter storms, and federal disaster declaration areas.

NLT staff Showcases OnTheMap for Emergency Management at the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando FL.

March 2012 - NLT Team contributes to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Annual Partnership Workshop in Arlington VA. The workshop convenes federal and state Labor Market Information agencies to discuss latest developments in the field of local labor market economics and the Census data products. 

NLT team helps the Census Bureau release OnTheMap Version 6 January 26, 2012. OnTheMap is the Census Bureau's premier web-based mapping and reporting application for performing historical and geographic workforce and labor market analysis.

MIT Senseable City Lab, AT&T Labs-Research and IBM Research Researchers are mapping patterns of social connectedness across the U.S. based on anonymous and aggregated cell phone interactions data. Interesting !!

The white house today annouced an interesting proposal to reorganize a number of federal agencies to better meet the economic and business needs of the nation and improve effeciency.  

The Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute at the University of South Carolina Geography Department has put together an interesting national Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI®) which measures the social vulnerability of every U.S. county to environmental hazards.

The World Resources Institute, in conjunction with several corporate sponsors, has developed Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, an very cool web-based dashboard style GIS tool for measuring and mapping global water-related risks.