Mexico Data Coming Soon from Applied Geographic Solutions
We’re excited to announce that Mexico demographic data is coming soon to the AGS data library! This new release expands our North American coverage with a rich set of geographic and demographic variables—available at multiple levels of detail, from national and...
Understanding Mexican Geographies
One of the hallmark characteristics of both American and Canadian census geography is that the base layer must completely tesselate the national territory. Simply put, if you take all of the census blocks of the United States and map them, the entire country will be...
The Spookiest Towns in America
If you’re a longtime reader of this blog, you know that during the holidays, we like to have a little fun around here. While nothing will ever top our Demographic Guide to the Best Trick-or-Treating, we set out this year to identify the spookiest towns in America....
October 2025 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 October 2025. SiteSeer SiteSeer...
How to Spend Your Day the Geospatial Way (When the Cloud Goes Down)
It wasn’t long into Monday when the AWS blackout hit and our snarky Gen Z employee (everyone needs one), Ben, wrote out on our teams chat. “I can't even imagine what it would be like if I messed up and the whole internet went down for a few hours.” Neither can we, it...
Data Scientists in NYC: A Recap of SDSC25
Last week, we sent two of our data scientists, Matt Needham, Senior Vice President and Chief Demographer, and Thomas Cannon, Senior Data Scientist, to CARTO’s Spatial Data Science Conference 2025 (SDSC25) in NYC. Below is an account from Matt about the conference,...
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