Regional Inequality Portal (RIP)

Components

• Use BEA County Income Series for US Counties

• Process data to handle time-series breakage

• Add regional inequality analytics

• Using BEA regional employment and income series

• Implement regional analytics as a package

  • Location Quotients
  • Diversification Indices
  • Shift-share Analysis

• Interface to explore cleaned series with analytics

• Flask/python/jupyter

• Processing and QGIS

Resources

• BEA API
• PySAL GIDDY
• PySAL Inequality
• GDS Inequality Chapter