Bring Data to Life with Geovisual Tools

Geovisual Explorer provides a dynamic, interactive window into our database through a series of animated maps and graphs.  Eventually, this page will allow users to create custom maps from any of the data in our database.  At this time, however, this feature is still under development.  In the meantime, this page offers a sampling of interacitve and animated maps generated from various projects in which the Institute is involved.  Each of the stories below will take you to a page with an interactive map where you can explore the data at your own pace or an animated map where you click play and watch the story unfold before you. 

Explore 2010-11 CMS data maps

Explore/compare school-level data for Charlotte Mecklenburg for the 2010-11 school year. 

This series of maps was created in collaboration with MeckEd. 

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Explore 2009-10 school-level data for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

This series of maps was created in collaboration with MeckEd.  They were presented at a number of community meetings in preparation for the 2011 Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board elections. 

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Explore educational attainment in the Charlotte region

This series of maps shows the varying degrees of educational attainment in the Charlotte region based on 2009 U.S. Census data.   The levels of educational attainment range from “less than high school” to “graduate or professional degree” and indicate the highest level of education achieved by the individual.  To view the spatial distribution of a specific level of education, like “associate degree”, click the button to the left.  The map will then display the percent of each county’s population 25 years and older with that level of education; the darker the copper the greater the percent of the county’s population at that level of education.  Estimates are not available for counties with populations under 65,000 (Anson, Chester and Stanley).

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Explore Child Poverty in the Charlotte Region

This map series shows the annual rates of child poverty in the fourteen-county Charlotte region for the years 2000 through 2009.  The shade of the county represents the severity of child poverty; the darker the teal, the greater the percent of children living in poverty in that county. 

Click the play button below the title to start the animation.  To view specific years, click the on timeline at the appropriate point.

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RENCI Urban Growth Model

Many parts of North Carolina have seen significant population growth over the last few decades.  This has  translated into changes in development and land-use patterns. RENCI at UNC Charlotte has conducted research that is revealing the physical and environmental impacts of growth in the Piedmont and surrounding areas.                       

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