UA's MAP Dashboard wins national award

The MAP Dashboard, an economic data project of the University of Arizona Eller College of Management, won a national award for its use of compelling graphic design to demonstrate teacher wage disparities across 12 metropolitan areas in the western United States.

The Association of Public Data Users selected the MAP’s “fuel gauge” graphic on teacher wages for its annual Data Viz Awards.

The visualization used a stylized fuel gauge to compare the median wages of Tucson’s secondary school teachers ($37,690) to those of 11 peer metropolitan areas and the U.S., all of them higher than Tucson’s.

Making Action Possible for Southern Arizona — referred to as the MAP Dashboard — is a partnership with the UA’s Eller College, the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona and the Southern Arizona Leadership Council.

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“We strive to make the data accessible and interesting, which is why the MAP is used by the media and in classrooms and boardrooms across Southern Arizona,” said Jennifer Pullen, MAP Dashboard coordinator.

An infographic featuring a fuel-gauge graphic and other MAP data is published on the last Sunday of each month in the Arizona Daily Star and on Tucson.com.

Other business awards

• Tucson attorney Leighton Rockafellow Sr., of the Rockafellow Law Firm, was named to “The Best Lawyers in America” in the category of personal injury litigation – plaintiffs. He was also named a Top 100 Trial Lawyer in Arizona for 2016 by The National Trial Lawyers.
• Howard A. Wuertz, managing partner of Sundance Farms Ltd. in Coolidge, received the 2016 Netafim award for Advancements in Microirrigation from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, for contributions to the commercial adaptation of sub-surface drip irrigation.
• Richard B. Bacal, attorney with the Law Office of Richard B. Bacal, was selected for the forthcoming Top Attorneys of North America 2017 edition of The Who’s Who Directories, in the field of legal services.
• Michael Bernstein of M. Bernstein Real Estate Appraisals has earned the MAI designation of the Appraisal Institute.