Mapping Our Biases

After five and a half years of our newsletter, with about 250 issues published and hundreds of maps, we realize that we are frequently but inadvertently showing our biases on what places we should map. It’s not that we don’t like Columbus, Ohio. It’s a fine place. But...

July 2025 Round-up

At the end of each month, the AGS team looks back at articles and blog posts that we saw this month that stood out to us. Some are from news agencies, and many come from our partners, but not all use our data. Here is the round-up from July 2025. CBRE A mall shakeup...

Data on Demand

Demographic and consumer data is often just one of a wide range of data elements which must be brought together to undertake a modern location analysis. And while the toolkits for managing and analyzing the data are increasingly available – often at minimal cost –...