TruLabor regional dashboards
Your region's economy on one page that keeps itself current.
I build economic dashboards for regional commissions, workforce boards and economic developers. They pull straight from public labor market data, refresh every week, and explain what the numbers mean in plain English. Need something different? I build custom views around your questions, including your own data, and work directly with your team until it fits.
33 regions built across Florida and GeorgiaRefreshed every Monday from BLS, Census and state dataWorks on any phone, tablet or browser
What's on a dashboard
The questions your board and your grant applications keep asking
Each section answers one question, county by county, against the state and the nation.
Is the economy healthy?
Unemployment, labor force and employment by month, with every county one click away.
BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
What drives the economy?
Jobs, pay and growth by industry, and which industries are true regional specialties.
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
Is the region ready to grow a target industry?
Projected job openings against graduates from local colleges and technical schools, job by job.
State occupational projections; IPEDS completions
How exposed is the job base to AI?
The share of local jobs AI is likely to reshape, split between automation and augmentation.
Eloundou et al. (2024), Science
Who's moving in and out?
Population change, where new residents come from, and where people leave for.
Census population estimates; IRS migration data
Do we meet the distress tests?
Grant-ready facts for every county, checked against federal EDA criteria, with a source line ready to paste.
Census American Community Survey; BLS
Plain English, built in
Every section opens with what the numbers say
Short takeaways are written from the data on screen and change as you filter. Pick an industry and the page tells you where the training pipeline keeps up and where it falls short. Every sentence is exact and traceable to its source.
How it works
Set up once, then it runs itself
Weeks 1 to 3
We build your region
Your counties, your target industries and your colors, tailored to the plans and reports you already produce.
Every Monday
It refreshes itself
New federal and state data flows in automatically. If a source has a problem, the last good figures stay up and I fix it.
Every month
We keep improving it together
A short note on what changed and why it matters, and regular check-ins with your team to refine the dashboard as your needs change.
Why it's different
Built for publishing, not just exploring
- Built around your needsStart from TruLabor or start from scratch. Custom views, your own data, your questions.
- FastThe whole page is lighter than a single photo, so it opens in a moment.
- On your own websiteYour address and your colors, linked or embedded in your site.
- No licenses to manageAnyone with the link can view it. Nothing to install.
- Always currentNo one has to refresh extracts or republish a workbook.
- Cite-readyEvery figure names its source, with source lines ready for grant applications.
Who it's for
Organizations that plan around the regional economy
I'm Nick Truitt, an economist who builds tools that make regional data usable.
I studied at Florida State University, earning a bachelor's with a double major in economics and political science and then a master's in applied economics. From 2017 to 2020 I worked at Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity in the Bureau of Workforce Statistics and Economic Research, which produces the state's official labor market data. Outside of work I follow labor market conditions and current events closely.
I work one-on-one with every client, from the first sketch through regular check-ins after launch, so the tools keep up with what your team actually needs.
Truitt Economics is my independent practice. TruLabor is what I needed when I was answering data requests from workforce boards: one page, always current, that explains itself. I now want to put that in your hands.