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Global North Carolina "Heat-Map"

UNC’s Center for International Understanding has partnered with SAS to develop a new tool to better understand the state’s “global” footprint.

Leoneda Inge:  The Global North Carolina Heat Map is believed to be the first of its kind.  Adam Hartzell is executive director of The Center for International Understanding.   He says the idea is to find out how global we really are.  

Adam Hartzell:  It puts together a unique blend of factors. One is demographic measures, economic measures as well as education measures.   And one of the really neat things it does is it breaks it down on a county-by-county level.

For example, you can click on a county and find out how many residents are foreign born or how many foreign-owned companies are in a particular county.

Hartzell says he can see the global information being used for economic development or for enhancing k-12 foreign language offerings.

Leoneda Inge is WUNC’s race and southern culture reporter, the first public radio journalist in the South to hold such a position. She also is co-host of the podcast Tested and host of the special podcast series, PAULI. Leoneda is the recipient of numerous awards from AP, RTDNA and NABJ. She’s been a reporting fellow in Berlin and Tokyo. You can follow her on Twitter @LeonedaInge.
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