by Gary Menger | Sep 1, 2022 | Maps, Product Sneak Peek
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...
by Gary Menger | Aug 18, 2022 | Census
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...
by Gary Menger | Aug 18, 2022 | Census
It is a familiar story heard here at AGS… “I loaded the data that I received from you into my GIS application, but when I map it, there is a county with no data. Please take a look at the attached map. Why don’t you have data for this area?” The accompanying map...
by Gary Menger | Aug 4, 2022 | Canada Data, Menger's Musings
For many years our users have been regularly hounding me for data for Canada. After all, it seemed a natural extension of our geographic coverage to head back to the land of my birth. We avoided it for the longest time because we didn’t have the bandwidth but more...
by Gary Menger | Jul 28, 2022 | Menger's Musings
To be a data person is to be a tragic and lonely creature riding the roller coaster that comes along with trying to answer a question with error laden data that doesn’t measure what you think it does. So, we came up with a play list that mirrors your typical day (and...
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