by Elyse Menger | Nov 18, 2021 | 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 2021. GIS Planning The...
by Gary Menger | Nov 11, 2021 | Snapshot API
In the first article in this series, we looked at edge effects – specifically, differences in trade area statistics based on the methodology of retrieval. Here we look at the effect of minor positional (where is the site?) and size (how big is the trade area?) on...
by Elyse Menger | Nov 11, 2021 | Economic Development
It’s unavoidable at this point: the holidays are here. Turn on the news these days, and you are hit with information about the supply chain crisis, and everyone from store owners to news anchors begging you to do your holiday shopping early. As you think about gift...
by Gary Menger | Nov 4, 2021 | Menger's Musings
The convention in cartography is that unless otherwise specified, up on the map is always north. It wasn’t always this way. Different cultures used different, and often highly inconsistent, conventions which had cultural or religious meaning. What sealed the “north is...
by Elyse Menger | Nov 4, 2021 | Census
To further help users understand how the privacy budget has affected small area data, we decided to deep dive into a specific area to see how it looks on the ground. We chose a block group which we know that has not changed over the past ten years, located in a...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
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 2021. CoreLogic October...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 21, 2021 | Snapshot API
The Snapshot data engine has recently been upgraded with several new features and capabilities. Briefly, these include – Additional documentation tools on database creation, including statistics useful for checking that data loaded correctly (totals and extremes for...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 21, 2021 | Product Sneak Peek, Snapshot API
Over the years, the subject of the assignment of demographics to trade areas – whether radius, drive time, or any old polygon – has been prominent in retail location research. The debate exists because demographic data is collected for one set of geographic areas, and...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 14, 2021 | City Series
When you think about hot areas in the country, Denver probably comes to mind. If you are a millennial—or even a member of Gen Z—you probably know someone who has moved to Denver in the last few years. For many, the climate, and progressive lifestyle, have drawn them...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 14, 2021 | City Series
The Austin of today is nearly unrecognizable from it’s past. In 1970, Austin had a population total of less than 400,000 people, making it the 78th largest metropolitan area in the United States. Today, there are 2.3 million people living in the Austin area, making it...
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