This project was a cross-institutional collaborative partnership that includes RTI Research Triangle Park NC; Duke University Durham NC; UNC Wilmington Wilmington NC; East Carolina University Greenville NC; Carteret County Community College Beaufort NC. Funding comes from the National Science Foundation Innovation and Technology Ecosystems Type 1 Developmental Award NSF Engine Program. As part of the Development Award the partnership gathered data from a wide array of public sources to broadly describe the current environmental economic demographic and other trends and the geographic characteristics of Eastern North Carolina. All data was collected from public sources (listed in the README) and cleaned to reflect North Carolina geographies at the smallest geographic unit of analysis available either county or census tract. Data included was decided by a group process. All data represents the most recent data year available at the time of collection.
