by Elyse Menger | Feb 2, 2023 | Census, Why AGS
When the Census data is released every ten years, the geographic boundaries change. The 2020 Census provided unique challenges with the data and geography that we have extensively covered on the blog. To best serve our clients, we carry a complete range of standard...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 26, 2023 | Monthly Round-Ups
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 January 2023. SiteSeer Research...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 26, 2023 | Current Events, Demographics
We’ve heard about students using AI tools to help them write essays for university with varying degrees of success. So we wondered—could ChatGPT write the AGS blog? We asked the ChatGPT bot to write an essay on using demographics for retail site selection, which you...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 19, 2023 | Menger's Musings
Over the years, our data library has grown from a few hundred demographic variables to well over forty thousand elements that now covers both the United States and Canada. While we are admittedly data geeks, guilty of building data just for the fun of it, many of our...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 19, 2023 | Climate Data
The last few weeks in Southern California have been, well, a bit soggy. To those who know the area, it is either Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood or a 1970’s cheesy Leslie Nielson disaster movie. There is nothing between the two extremes as the occasional errant summer...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 12, 2023 | Current Events, Maps
Each year, U-Haul releases a list of states experiencing growth based on their own data for equipment demand for one-way trucks which they call the “U-Haul Growth Index” (U-Haul Growth States of 2022: Texas, Florida Top List Again | U-Haul (uhaul.com)). The 2022 list...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 12, 2023 | Current Events
This week, we looked at the U-Haul article that declared the top growth states for population based on where one-way trucks are leaving from, and where they are going. But as it turns out, they aren’t the only company that creates this list, in fact, we found 5...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 5, 2023 | Monthly Round-Ups
2022 was a big year for AGS, and we wanted to look back on some of the things that made this past year memorable. We added thousands of variables to our library with new databases like Panorama CanAm, Vital Statistics, Chronic Health and Risk Factors, and of course,...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 5, 2023 | Product Sneak Peek
It’s the start of a new year, and we have big plans for 2023. There are lots of exciting things happening at AGS this year, some that we aren’t quite willing to share all the details of just yet. Here is a little sneak peek of what you can look forward to this year...
by Elyse Menger | Dec 22, 2022 | Monthly Round-Ups
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 December 2022. BisNow With a...
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