2024A Release Overview

The AGS 2024A data release is now available. Here are the highlights that you will find in the new release. Many of the AGS data are available natively at the block level. Block level output of other datasets is handled by disaggregation techniques using the AGS block...

Summer at the Lake

Tourism can have significant impacts on retail sales, especially those related to convenience goods and food services. Over the years, many retail models have been built that use only the demographics of local residents while ignoring entirely the impacts that...

Panorama 2.0

In 2015, we released the first version of Panorama, which found its home amongst the elite geo-demographic segmentation systems. As good as Panorama 1.0 was, after nearly a decade it was due for a fresh coat of paint. Ten years ago, most of our modeling was done at...

Panorama and MRI-Simmons Update

Each year, MRI-Simmons conducts their annual “doublebase” survey, which we use as a data source in a variety of databases but most notably in Panorama. This year with the 2024A release, not only is Panorama getting some improvements through this enhanced survey, it is...