IT VAR business by state: interactive map dashboard
Build an interactive US map dashboard that estimates how much business each leading U.S. IT VAR (value-added reseller / solution provider) does in every state, visualized as a choropleth map. Trigger it by opening a browser route (e.g. /var-dashboard), space-authenticated. There's no cron or webhook — it's a person-facing web page. Structure it as three steps: A geometry step exposed on its own route that fetches US state boundaries at runtime from a public map source (I used the us-atlas states TopoJSON via jsDelivr — you can swap in any equivalent US states TopoJSON/GeoJSON source or CDN) and returns it as cached JSON, with a clean error response if the source is unavailable. A main React dashboard that renders immediately and fetches the state geometry client-side from that geometry route. It draws a US choropleth colored by modeled VAR business per state, with a side panel showing the selected state's top providers and a national leaderboard. Hover to preview a state, click to pin it. Render the SVG map with a geo/topojson toolkit (I used d3-geo + topojson-client — any comparable mapping library is fine). Optionally, a second regional dashboard on its own route that zooms into a specific set of states (I did a 15-state Southeast/Mid-Atlantic view) listing the top few VARs to prioritize per state plus best-effort sales contacts, with a "verify before outreach" caveat. Key modeling detail: real per-state revenue by company isn't publicly reported, so distribute each company's estimated company-wide revenue across states in proportion to state economic size (I used BEA state GDP figures — any state-size weighting works), with an adjustable boost on each company's HQ state. Keep the company list, revenue estimates, state weights, and HQ-boost factor in editable data files so the model is easy to tune. Label all revenue figures clearly as estimates, not audited data. Tools used: us-atlas states TopoJSON (via jsDelivr CDN), d3-geo, topojson-client, React, BEA state GDP data
What this prompt builds
An interactive US map dashboard that visualizes estimated IT VAR (value-added reseller) business activity by state using a choropleth map. The workflow models per-state revenue for leading solution providers by distributing company-wide estimates across states weighted by GDP, with an adjustable HQ-state boost. Users can hover and click states to view top VARs and sales contacts, helping partner teams identify regional expansion opportunities.
The problem
Partner teams expanding into IT channels need to quickly identify which value-added resellers are strongest in each region, but public per-state revenue data doesn't exist. This workflow builds an interactive US choropleth map that estimates how much business each leading IT VAR does in every state by modeling company-wide revenue distributions weighted by state GDP and headquarters location. Hover or click any state to see its top providers and prioritize outreach, turning scattered national data into actionable regional intelligence.
Solution and impact
The dashboard delivers an instant visual view of VAR strength across all 50 states, with drill-down panels showing ranked providers and best-effort sales contacts for each region. Partner teams can spot underserved markets, prioritize high-opportunity states, and discover new reseller relationships without manual research. The underlying model is fully editable — revenue estimates, state weights, and HQ-boost factors live in data files — so the team can refine assumptions as they gather real intelligence.