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...

The Ever-Shifting Sands of Geography Rosters

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...