The Atlas

A navigational ontology
for workforce development

Every college in the California Community College system receives a unified surface — six dimensions of institutional intelligence, navigable in natural language.

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Two Scales

From the state
to the college

State Atlas

116 colleges across 73 districts and 8 regional consortia. Search for any college, and the atlas surfaces it in context.

College Atlas

A college atlas opens into six forms, each representing an element of a workforce development worldview.

The Six Forms

Each college is a world

Selecting a college opens a three-dimensional space of six rotating forms. Each form is an entry point into a dimension of institutional reality — click to explore, and the atlas dissolves into a natural language interface native to the form.

Four of these forms are analytical — students, courses, occupations, and employers — each grounded in a public data authority. The remaining two are action-driven: partnerships and strong workforce proposals formulated from the four analytical forms.

Students

Chancellor's Office DataMart

The people the college system serves. Simulated academic journeys calibrated to state data.

Partnerships

Generated Through Analysis

Data-driven partnership proposals that connect institutional capacity to employer need.

Employers

Employment Development Dept.

Real organizations from state labor records, scoped to those community colleges can meaningfully engage.

Courses

College Curriculum Catalogs

The institution's curricular commitment. The courses that are taught, and the skills they teach.

Strong Workforce

Derived from partnerships

Partnership proposals translated into NOVA-compatible Strong Workforce Program applications.

Occupations

Centers of Excellence

Regional labor demand signals of relevant occupations grounded in workforce-oriented research.

Ask Anything

Natural language meets
institutional data

Analytical elements of the atlas are queryable in plain language. Ask about students, courses, occupations, or employers — the system translates your question into a structured graph query and returns accurate results.

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Found 3 students in manufacturing programs ranked by GPA with skill alignment.

StudentPrimary FocusCoursesGPA
#412Industrial Technology113.91
#738CNC Machining93.87
#1055Welding Technology103.82
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