Elev pitch

Hi Aaron, attached is my elevator pitch. Thanks!
Those are great questions. The method relies on a series of mutually consistent export data control totals that are reported at various levels of specificity, i.e., at the US detailed industry level, the metro broad industry level for goods industries and regional levels for others.  The key is to allocate the export control totals to counties (using GDP estimates obtained from Moody's) and use a constraint satisfaction algorithm so that the county estimate sum out with all the known control totals (which act as the constraint on the estimation process). Then from the county level I'm able to build up metropolitan estimates that are entirely consistent with the best available information from various sources. I'm pulling together about a dozen datasets from to run this process. These include data from Census, BEA, Moody's Analytics, BLS, Inst. of Intl Education, IRS, Energy Info Admin, and the Department of Transportation.