Tapestry: Collaborative Tool for Regional Data and Modeling

This paper introduces and describes the Tapestry regional economic data and modeling project. Tapestry is an open source set of data generating algorithms, harmonization bridges, data organizing procedures and data models. It is also a database that provides access to Tapestry also represents a collaborative environment where researchers can use and improve data generating algorithms and methods. Tapestry represents many types of regional economic data and models, but ultimately it is designed to generate inter-regional social accounting matrices for every county in the United States.