by Elyse Menger | Dec 22, 2022 | Meet the AGS Team, Monthly Round-Ups
As we come to the end of the year, the AGS team is looking back at our favorite articles of 2022. Which articles make the cut? We break it down by team member. Gary: This year, Gary wrote a trilogy on AGS’ methodology. These three articles really sum up the way we...
by Elyse Menger | Dec 15, 2022 | Freeway
Our sister company, Applied Spatial Technologies, is releasing an updated version of its flagship Freeway drivetime system. Freeway was first released in 1996, and since its major facelift in 2019 has continued to add capabilities and substantially improved...
by Elyse Menger | Dec 15, 2022 | Holiday
If you’ve seen one Hallmark movie, you’ve seen them all. Woman takes over struggling family business and after a high-powered businessman visits his family over Christmas in the same small, fictional New England town, the small business is saved with the help of the...
by Elyse Menger | Dec 8, 2022 | Quality of Life
We have all seen them, lists of the “top ten places for….”. Some are good, others not so much. With our release of the quality of life series, it is inevitable that the data will be used to add to the ever growing list of best and worst places. We recently were...
by Gary Menger | Dec 8, 2022 | Demographics, Quality of Life
In the Panorama segmentation system, the most affluent segments are assigned to the lowest numbers with 01 One Percenters holding the top spot for affluence. Does money translate into happiness, or at least a better quality of life? To answer that question, we...
by Elyse Menger | Dec 1, 2022 | Maps, Product Sneak Peek
For many years now, we have carried healthcare data relating to estimates of expected case loads by condition, mostly used by hospitals and insurance companies. However, this leaves a gap for those suffering from chronic diseases and the various lifestyle habits that...
by Gary Menger | Dec 1, 2022 | Menger's Musings
This week, I read with considerable sadness of the passing of an old friend and mentor, Tony Lea. As many will know, Tony was an integral part of the success of Environics Analytics in Toronto over the past two decades. I first met Tony some forty years ago when I...
by Elyse Menger | Nov 17, 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 November 2022. CBRE We are right...
by Elyse Menger | Nov 10, 2022 | Quality of Life
Growing up, there was a series of books that was very popular among my classmates. It was a variety of different stories, but they all had the same theme—choose your own adventure. You would read a section, and then at the end it would instruct you to turn to page 27...
by Elyse Menger | Nov 10, 2022 | Quality of Life
Years ago, when we first released the Quality of Life database, there was much to do about who’s city would come out on top. There were even some accusations between Gary and Matt on why one city was ranked higher than another. Now that we are rereleasing Quality of...
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