by Elyse Menger | Feb 6, 2025 | Current Events, Partner Posts
If you want to go to a major event in another city, you need to think about where you are going to stay. Unless you can stay with family or friends, you are likely looking at a hotel. Since New Orleans is hosting back to back events this year, the Super Bowl and Mardi...
by Elyse Menger | Feb 6, 2025 | Climate Data, Current Events
We hear it every year around this time, complaints from northern teams that their cities never get to host the Super Bowl. The last five host cities for the Super Bowl, including 2025, are New Orleans, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Tampa. And why, perchance,...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 30, 2025 | Demographics, Maps
It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that the American population is getting older. The average number of children born to women of childbearing age has been falling steadily, and the distribution of population by age most certainly shows this: The percentage of the...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 30, 2025 | 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 2025. LA Times During...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 23, 2025 | Current Events
January always sees a surge of people going to the gym, starting new fitness classes, clean eating and even home fitness routines. New year, new me rings true for a lot of people, but who are these resolution setters? And what does this data reveal about surveys?...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 23, 2025 | Current Events
This week’s will it, won’t it TikTok drama had us thinking… what is America’s favorite social media platform? Will we all survive without the latest social obsession if in fact it does eventually go away? The numbers might surprise you given the commotion over this...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 16, 2025 | Meet the AGS Team
We are pleased to announce that we have hired Alex Burdsall as a Spatial Data Scientist. Alex brings a unique background to AGS, with eight years of experience in film and video production before transitioning into data-driven roles for the last seven years. He earned...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 16, 2025 | Climate Data
Last week, a series of devastating fires broke out in the Los Angeles area when unusually strong late-season Santa Ana winds combined with plentiful dry fuel to create the ideal conditions for disaster. Santa Ana winds are most common during the late fall but can...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 9, 2025 | Product Sneak Peek
In our never-ending quest to provide the highest possible quality and range of demographics, we have a busy year ahead of us. Most of our efforts are focused on continuing to integrate parcel, address, and dwelling level data into our core demographic estimates. Along...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 9, 2025 | Site Selection
Recently, I scrolled through the Kansas City subgroup on Reddit and saw an interesting post wondering what the relationship was between two fast food chains in our area: Whataburger and Andy’s Frozen Custard. While the original poster assumed that there was something...
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