1. A method for utilizing a geographic data search and visualization system comprising: providing a computer infrastructure operable to enable a user to search a database of demographic and economic data that has been spatially dissected and aggregated to portray characteristics of custom regions to identify geographic regions of interest by selecting a plurality of search criteria; searching the database of demographic and economic data to ascertain responsive geographic regions meeting the search criteria; displaying the responsive geographic regions on an interactive map; enabling the user to select a responsive geographic region in the interactive map to display demographic and economic data associated with said region from said database, said data including a list of economic development organizations associated with said region; and enabling the user to select one or more of the listed economic development organizations to view data associated with the region of the selected organization and information provided by the selected organization.