September 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 September 2021. Safegraph Want...

Washington D.C. Traffic Explained

When you think Washington, D.C., you think about government. You might also think about traffic. Washington, D.C. is consistently ranked as one of the worst cities for commuting traffic in the United States. Heading into the capital are thousands and thousands of...
Boom and Bust Towns

Boom and Bust Towns

In many areas, one of the big tourism items is the exploration of ghost towns. The official web site for tourism in Nevada proudly touts the state as being number one in the country for ghost towns – and with over six hundred, they more than outnumber the now existing...

Wanna Get Away?

If the last year and a half of isolation hasn’t been enough for you (or you have realized that you really don’t need as many friends as you thought you did), you might be looking for somewhere remote to go. So, where is the most remote places that you can live? Or go...

Echoes of Settlement Strategies

Watching the Hurricane Ida coverage a few weeks ago had us thinking about odd geography in the United States. What is a Parish? Why can’t they just say county? Much of our geography today was shaped by those who settled there. Earliest settlements were by three...