by Elyse Menger | May 27, 2021 | Maps
In the last year and a half, we have shown many maps on this blog. As we tell the stories of our data, nothing can do that better than a visual. We have enjoyed creating maps to show the many variables that we have available, including environmental, crime data,...
by Elyse Menger | May 27, 2021 | Blog, Partner Posts
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 May 2021. The Future of...
by Elyse Menger | May 20, 2021 | Partner Posts
Realtors across the country are reporting the same thing: There is no inventory and sale prices are regularly going over the asking price. Inman, a real estate news service, recently published an in-depth discussion on the low inventory and crazy bidding wars and...
by Elyse Menger | May 20, 2021 | Partner Posts
In 2018 the New Democrat Coalition released a study noting that the US is missing one million homes. Problem seems simple enough to solve – build more homes. Sure, okay, let’s do that. In order to do that a homebuilder needs to navigate – land use and permitting,...
by Gary Menger | May 13, 2021 | Menger's Musings
This week, AGS released its 2021A datasets. Just two decades ago, most demographics users did so by using a Windows based application which usually used a GIS platform and often proprietary data formats and stored everything on the small local hard drive. The end user...
by Elyse Menger | May 6, 2021 | Maps
With vaccination rates going up, and infection rates declining in many parts of the country, shoppers are once again hitting their local malls and shopping centers. While some are backing away from retail, discount clothing stores like Ross and T.J. Maxx are welcoming...
by Elyse Menger | Apr 29, 2021 | Partner Posts
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 April 2021. Did the...
by Elyse Menger | Apr 29, 2021 | Census, Maps
Just this week, the Census Bureau released the long-awaited apportionment counts, and the population totals by state. We had some fun with the new data, looking at population changes since the 1970’s by block group, smoothed using a five-mile radius around each...
by Gary Menger | Apr 15, 2021 | Menger's Musings
Like many companies, Applied Geographic Solutions was born of a combination of necessity and entrepreneurial drive. The necessity came about because the company I worked for at the time – Urban Decision Systems – was sold at the end of 1995. The preferred buyer was...
by Gary Menger | Apr 8, 2021 | Menger's Musings
If I were to ask people what their car dashboard gauge labelled “Speed” measures, all but that annoying engineer with the pocket protector would say, duh, the speed of the car. Obviously. But they would be wrong. The speedometer measures the rotation speed of the...
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