Security Risks and Corporate Liability

Just the other day over our regular Friday morning coffee, a friend of mine told me that he and his wife returned from a vacation to find their vehicle had been relieved of its catalytic convertor. The extraction surgery was not without complications, and the car was...
CrimeRisk: Mission Critical Data

CrimeRisk: Mission Critical Data

One of the first AGS products to step outside the realm of demographics was our CrimeRisk database, which over two decades has evolved to become one of the key components of our overall strategy to become the premier provider of mission critical attribute data to the...

The Changing of the Guard

For well over twenty years, Lori Aune has been the steady and calm voice of AGS who patiently explained demographic terminology, answered questions about the interpretation of data and quickly and efficiently delivered custom data requests to clients. Since everything...

Estimating Missing Data

Many data sources which appear to be national coverage at a specific geography level will often have missing records. There are a wide variety of methods which can be used to ‘infill’ missing records from the simplistic (assign it the average value or a geographically...

Crickets, Revisited

During the years prior to the 2020 census, many in the industry understood that the Census Bureau was headed down a path which was sure to reduce the utility of the decennial census. The essential claim was that it was possible to match census respondents to geocoded...