Data Sources
- Lightcast — AI-related job postings data (2014–2023)
- U.S. Census Bureau
- American Community Survey (ACS, 5‑year estimates 2013–2022) for demographics
- Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS, 2013–2023) for employment counts
- Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI, 2013–2023) for labor turnover
- County Business Patterns (CBP, 2013–2023) for establishment sizes & industry employment
- Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) — House Price Index & growth rates (2013–2024)
- USPTO / PatentsView
- All patents & inventor counts, by county
- AI-specific patent classification (Giczy et al., 2022)
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) — Bachelor’s & master’s degrees awarded per capita
Software & Packages
- R (4.0+) with:
- tidyverse, fixest, modelsummary, kableExtra
- sf, leaflet, tigris, scales
- Quarto (Cosmo & Brand themes)