Data for the Greater Good

What makes data and statistical analysis wonderful is the ability to optimize your research or business and take it to the next level. But what about using data to optimize non-profit organizations and enhance the work that they do? A little data can go a long way to...

Dealing with the 2020 Census

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...

Optimizing Online Ads with Data

  In the years since “big data” became a term, the scope of what data can do to enhance your business has changed and evolved. If you own a business, you likely are paying for some kind of online advertising. Google Ads, social media advertising, and any other...

Tracking Infill Development

In recent years, the Nashville metropolitan area has been one of the ‘hot’ markets nationwide, as evidenced by the count of construction cranes in the downtown core. While much of this growth has been an expansion of the urban footprint, in recent years attention has...

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August 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 August 2025. Spatial.ai The hot...

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Canadian and American Ancestry?

In 1992, when my family moved (temporarily, as we told our families) from Toronto to Los Angeles, one of our early discoveries was that upon hearing the words ‘out’ or ‘about’, many of our neighbors immediately claimed some level of Canadian heritage. This shouldn’t...

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Canada Demographic Overview 2025

The population of Canada has for decades growth at a relatively stable pace of about 1% per year. From 1971 to 2021, the population increased from 21.6 to 36.9 million people, averaging around 1% growth per year. Since the 2021 census, however, the population has...

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The Legacy of Eldredge Gerry

The practice of defining electoral districts by putting a finger or two on the scales is nothing new to American politics. In 1812, Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts was certainly not the first to draw electoral districts for the purpose of maximizing his...

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Who Should be Counted?

Recent statements by President Trump, in conjunction with a recently introduced house bill, have refueled a contentious issue related to the decennial census and who should be counted. For many reasons, this has become a partisan rather than practical matter, but here...

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