- Tableau dashboards for use by the states of various Fish & Wildlife agencies to visualize and track their R3 (recruitment, retention, reactivation) metrics.
- I was the lead visual analytics developer for this project executed by Southwick Associates. My Tableau Public profile can be seen here. This is a multi-state research initiative wherein state wildlife agency data was collected, curated, and assimilated for use in Tableau dashboards. The goal of the project was to visualize license sales by these organizations and display it in an intuitive, useful manner so that decision-makers across different parts of the organization could ask questions of the data in a standardized manner. Key performance indicators were identified and included, broken apart by demographic segment, and filtered across time-spans and product categories.
- Economic impact analysis of commercial and recreational striped bass angling along the eastern coast of the United States.
- This project was also executed by Southwick Associates on behalf of Stripers Forever. I acted as the lead author and project manager for the 2017 version of this report. An earlier version of the report that I did not participate in from 2005 can be found on the Stripers Forever website. This is a detailed report that measures and compares the economic impact of striped bass fishing by both commercial and recreational anglers. It takes a holistic economic impact perspective of the activities surrounding striped bass fishing, which includes purchases made on gear and travel expenses for use in striped bass fishing.
- Gabe, Todd & Lisac, N.A.. (2014). A note on the effects of popular music concerts on hospitality sales: The case of waterfront concerts in Bangor, Maine. Review of Regional Studies. 44. 61-74.
- This piece examines the local tourism-related expenditures made by attendees at large, outdoor popular music concerts held from 2010 to 2012 in Bangor, Maine. A regression analysis of the relationship between monthly taxable retail sales—e.g., restaurant and lodging sales—and the number of concertgoers is used to estimate local spending figures of between $33.81 and $52.31 per attendee on restaurant meals, and $18.92 to $23.12 per concertgoer on lodging in the Bangor region. Results suggest that an estimated 29 to 31 percent of attendees spend the night in the local area, which is very similar to the share of concertgoers who travel more than two hours to attend shows.
Nicholas Lisac 