ABOUT US

Our Name

Founded in 2022, SCAN is an undergraduate economics and business organization that seeks to provide professional analysis of contemporary economic issues that are important for the Pittsburgh region. Led by Carnegie Mellon University professor Laurence Ales, SCAN consists of a group of students who have passion for Economics and the city they live in.

Please contact Caleb Brobst @ cbrobst@andrew.cmu.edu for any questions regarding the data or about joining the club.

Meet Our Members! (Updated Spring 2022)

This team is led by Laurence Ales, Associate Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University.

Contact: ales@andrew.cmu.edu

Inspiration for this project comes from the summer 99-520 experiential learning course "Creating a New Visualization and Analysis Tool for Regional Economic Data. " This research was led by Professor Chris Telmer and about 30 students.