by Elyse Menger | Feb 25, 2021 | Climate Data, Product Sneak Peek
On the 26th of December, 2004, a massive undersea earthquake measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale resulted in a tsunami with recorded wave heights of 100 feet and resulted in at least one quarter of a million deaths. While an extreme event, the 1964 Alaskan earthquake...
by Elyse Menger | Feb 25, 2021 | Database Overview
One of the key problems that analysts face when building multivariate statistical models is multicollinearity in the independent variables. Imagine for a moment that you are trying to predict the demand for books by neighborhood using a simple demographic model. It...
by Elyse Menger | Feb 18, 2021 | Climate Data
No matter where you live, you are bound to experience some kind of natural disaster, right? Earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires, hail, hurricanes and high winds are just a part of life, you just get to choose what you are willing to put up with. In the vein of “choose...
by Elyse Menger | Feb 18, 2021 | Database Overview
While you may not immediately consider it necessary data, climate data can be very useful for insurance underwriting, retail merchandising, and real estate. AGS offers a general Climate database, which consists of four types of weather-based indexes, including...
by Elyse Menger | Feb 11, 2021 | Census
If you are like us, you have been refreshing the Census Bureau’s website weekly looking for the latest information about when the 2020 data will be released to the public. It was recently announced that the apportionment count, used officially for redistricting, will...
by Elyse Menger | Feb 11, 2021 | Climate Data, Product Sneak Peek
For many years, AGS has published risk indexes for the four major damaging weather events – hurricanes, tornadoes, hail, and high winds. While hurricane damage is usually most extensive along the coast, hurricane damage vulnerability extends even as far inland as the...
by Elyse Menger | Feb 4, 2021 | Maps, Product Sneak Peek
At the end of 2020, we teased a map showing a new Terrain Ruggedness Index that we promised would be coming to the AGS lineup in 2021. We are excited to share with you the sneak peek of the index that will be released this spring. Adapted from academic work, the...
by Elyse Menger | Feb 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
During the last few months of 2020, unemployment rates were declining most everywhere and trending towards the record low levels from just before the pandemic. Since unchanging weekly data is neither interesting to model nor interesting to use, we decided to switch to...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
One of the major innovations in trade area reporting came in the mid-1990’s with the introduction of the Freeway drive time engine which was actually the first product that AGS created. By using a grid representation of the road network, Freeway was able to produce...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 28, 2021 | Maps
Last week, we looked at the population change over the last 50 years. This week, we are looking at the metro level change by decade, from 1970 to 2030 (projected). We see some interesting patterns emerge in the maps. It seems as if metropolitan areas have fads and...
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