by Gary Menger | Jan 20, 2022 | Census, Menger's Musings
As a rule, we at AGS are not overly keen on the approach of talking about competitors negatively. Perhaps it is our polite Canadian heritage, where we are more likely to say that we are sorry for something we didn’t do than point fingers at the ones who did....
by Gary Menger | Nov 18, 2021 | Snapshot API
One of the great benefits of web enabled applications is the ability to quickly add substantial functionality simply by using external specialized APIs that minimize development and maintenance time. The Snapshot API is an easy way to add demographic reports to your...
by Gary Menger | Nov 11, 2021 | Snapshot API
In the first article in this series, we looked at edge effects – specifically, differences in trade area statistics based on the methodology of retrieval. Here we look at the effect of minor positional (where is the site?) and size (how big is the trade area?) on...
by Gary Menger | Nov 4, 2021 | Menger's Musings
The convention in cartography is that unless otherwise specified, up on the map is always north. It wasn’t always this way. Different cultures used different, and often highly inconsistent, conventions which had cultural or religious meaning. What sealed the “north is...
by Gary Menger | Oct 7, 2021 | Census, Featured
A tremendous effort in the analytics world is devoted to the task of data preparation and cleansing. Data exchanges refer to ‘curated’ data, which suggests that the suppliers of that data have gone to the trouble of estimating missing fields, reigning in outliers, and...
Recent Comments