Working to create a time-based heatmap of strike activity in the United States
This will originally use information from the Cornell University ILR Labor Action Tracker. They have a real-time map of labor actions.
Additionally, using data from the historical FMCS archive now located here. This data goes up until 2020 when FMCS stopped posting it publicly.
Current Heatmap:
Roadmap:
- Ingest data from ILR tracker
- Ingest data from FMCS csv
- Draw a test map of the US using Python
- Combine map and data to make heatmap
- Make gif out of maps per month
- Use more data than just ILR tracker to get more historical strike trends
- Number of actions by congressional district
- Setup Github Actions to run the scripts weekly to produce new gif