Burst!

Exploring investment-worthy growth patterns across the U.S.

Introduction + Rationale

Data

Tech Stack

Engineering Challenge

Stretch Goals

Introduction + Rationale

This project helps identify metros and other regions of the country that have experienced growth in particular industries, and thus helps connect potential investors (and also employees!) to the places where the industry is located.

Data

Monthly and quarterly data from The Bureau of Labor Statistics

Tech Stack

Data imported into Amazon S3 was batched-processed into a PostgreSQL using Apache Spark, and visualized using Dash by plotly

Engineering Challenge

The source data is hard to query for specific information. Also, some of the data (for example, industry descriptions) can be redundant, inconsistent, and generally don't come in a neat fashion.

Stretch Goals

In an ideal world, this would grow into a general platform for easier access to government research.