The NCMNS Metrics Dashboard is a data visualization platform built to support institutional priorities and communicate performance to staff, key stakeholders, and policy-makers. The primary charting libraries are AmCharts (https://www.amcharts.com/) and d3.js (https://d3js.org/) with data sources provided through a custom RESTful API. The platform itself is built using the MVC Framework, Laravel.

The 100 Counties Project of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences allows the public to explore how the Museum engages all 100 counties across North Carolina. Statistics are visualized through an interactive map and animated charts with summaries of each category. The data is updated using annually and served through a custom RESTful API.

A ‘proof of concept’ collection of data visualizations using d3.js. The data is derived from taxonomic information directly from the collections databases at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The result is an interactive radial tree that provides a different way of thinking about taxonomy.