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New Features. Improved Interface: Learn How to Use the Newly Enhanced National Economic Resilience Data Explorer (NERDE)

Free Webinar: March 18, 2024, 2pm CT

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The National Economic Resilience Data Explorer (NERDE) is a free online portal that helps you understand your community's economic strengths and vulnerabilities by providing data regarding local economic distress, employment and gross domestic product, local industry clusters, climate risk and innovation. You can use this information to create economic development plans, improve resilience, and apply for economic assistance and grants.

The newly enhanced NERDE makes these tasks easier than ever – whether you are a beginner or long-time user. To ensure that users of all levels get the most out of the new NERDE, we've scheduled two free webinars to help. 

Participants will learn to: 

• Find the data that is most relevant to their needs. NERDE provides data for more than 3,000 counties and for every economic development district (EDD) in the U.S. In addition, some data is available at the Census Tract level. Users will learn how to locate their community-specific data and discover what types of data are available, create custom views and comparisons between communities, and use the new Area Fact Sheet to gain quick, high-level insights.
• Incorporate new data sets into their analysis. Within NERDE, users can now access newly calculated information from Argonne's Economic Development Capacity Index (EDCI) County Economic Performance Index (CEPI, formerly the County Economic Impact Index, CEII), and Local Government Revenue Vulnerability Index (LGRVI). Users also have access within NERDE to new climate data from the Argonne Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR), as well as information on patent claims and Small Business Innovation Research grants.
• Use new features to improve their planning efforts: NERDE now provides "tool tips" that help explain why various metrics are important to resilience and how they can be used in analysis, planning and grant applications.

Both NERDE and the webinar are free, and you can register here for March 18. A recording will be available for those who can't attend.

NERDE was prepared by Argonne National Laboratory using Federal funds from the Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.