by Elyse Menger | Aug 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last summer, we published an article all about private school vs. public school enrollment. More than ever, this has become a topical conversation over the last year. Many news articles are pointing to families favoring private school—or even homeschool—over public...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 12, 2021 | Maps
As the fall approaches, college towns all across America are flooded with undergraduate students eager to move into their dorm rooms. Along with them come parents helping them move in, and alumni headed to town for home football games. Reliving the good old days, or...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 5, 2021 | Featured, Use Cases
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...
by Gary Menger | Aug 5, 2021 | Featured, Menger's Musings
I started my undergraduate degree in geography in the late 1970’s, but lest you think I roamed free with the dinosaurs, I admit to being slightly underage for a college freshman and most species were likely already extinct. It was an exciting time in geography as the...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 29, 2021 | Monthly Round-Ups
At the end of each month, the AGS team takes a look 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 July 2021. CARTO The use...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 29, 2021 | Snapshot API
Looking for a simple way to feed your applications with small area geographic data? AGS’ API, Snapshot, makes it easy to get just the data you need at a cost that you can afford. Snapshot is the perfect back end for applications that need accurate and comprehensive...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 22, 2021 | City Series, Maps
San Diego is often ranked as one of the most beautiful places in the United States to live. As the 17th largest metro area, San Diego has seen average growth in the last 20 years, but saw a large growth from 1970-2000. With a population over 3.3 million people, and an...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 22, 2021 | City Series, Maps
Buffalo, New York is a classic geographic study in locational advantage. After the British burned the city during the War of 1812, and with the opening of the Erie Canal in the 1820’s, the Lake Erie port town of Buffalo grew rapidly so that by 1860, Buffalo was ranked...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 15, 2021 | Canada Data
Fun fact — Windsor, Ontario, just across the river from Detroit, is at the same latitude as Sacramento, California. The vast majority of the Canadian population lives within a couple of hundred miles of the American border. At first glance, this seems like a...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 15, 2021 | Canada Data
The Canadian census has for some decades used a random rounding technique to minimize privacy concerns on its data. Essentially, the method works by rounding each number to the nearest five using a probability table. A value of 1 would have an 80% probability of being...
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