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,...
New Demographic Variables For 2025B
We recently had one of our channel partners ask us for some pretty detailed income statistics for renter households, and renter households by age. We have for many years produced a series of income tables by householder age, but don’t recall being asked for these...
Ask AGS: What’s the Difference Between Daytime Population and Non-Resident Population?
“When I see Daytime Population and Non-Resident Population in AGS data, are these the same thing? Do I need both? How should I interpret each?” They sound similar—and both affect local demand—but they represent distinct demographic phenomena. Here’s a breakdown of...
Comparing Privacy Disclosure Methods
We have focused on the disclosure avoidance techniques used by the United States for the 2020 census a great deal over the past few years. Given our expansion a few years ago into Canada and our coming expansion into Mexico, it is useful to compare the disclosure...
Building Small Area Demographics in 2025
Predicting where cities will grow has always been part science, part art. It wasn’t long ago that new ZIP+4 codes were considered, at least by some, a reliable indicator of growth. While some demographic providers still use this as their one key metric in their...
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