by Elyse Menger | Dec 17, 2020 | Unemployment Data
Earlier this week, we released our fortieth edition of the weekly unemployment estimates that we started at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. We naively thought that the crisis – or at least the employment effects of it – would be but an unpleasant blip in the...
by Elyse Menger | Dec 10, 2020 | CrimeRisk
It’s Christmastime in Chicago, and a family is planning on going on vacation for the holidays to visit family members abroad. They think that they have done everything right: they told neighbors that they will be out of town, set timers for their lamps and have locks...
by Gary Menger | Dec 10, 2020 | Menger's Musings
Over the past several years, the term ‘data science’ has emerged as one of those fashionable buzzwords that I hope will soon disappear. The term data science implies that its practitioners operate within the firm guidelines of bias-free and replicable empirical...
by Elyse Menger | Dec 10, 2020 | Non-Resident Population
2019 was predicted to be a record-breaking year for holiday travel, with an estimated 115.6 million people traveling between December 21 and January 1, according to AAA. This year, the Deloitte Pre-Thanksgiving Holiday Pulse Survey found that 65% of those surveyed...
by Gary Menger | Dec 3, 2020 | Covid-19 and Data, Menger's Musings
The COVID-19 pandemic has attracted the attention of many data scientists who have happily set off to apply their methods to epidemiology, and unwittingly have waded directly into the complex issues which ‘quantitative geography’ often painfully learned of some...
by elysehrobinson | Nov 19, 2020 | Retail Data
The RV business has always been volatile – with sales early to decline in a recession, and late to improve in a recovery. Total unit shipments steadily improved from the 2009 low of 165,700 units to a high of 504,600 units in 2017 (RV Industry Association,...
by elysehrobinson | Nov 19, 2020 | Retail Data
The quality and range of the data you use is critical to retail analysis and AGS is and always has been – first and foremost – a data company. But we believe in making that data come alive by providing developers and consultants with analytical tools that...
by elysehrobinson | Nov 19, 2020 | Retail Data
Next week is a retailer’s dream: Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Small Business Saturday are finally here. As we approach the biggest retail season of the year, we can’t help but think about how data can help to optimize retail sales, both for in person brick and...
by elysehrobinson | Nov 12, 2020 | Snapshot API
Working with our Panorama geo-demographic segmentation just got easier! Three new features are available in Snapshot that enhance customer address or mobile location files. For data with only a latitude/longitude coordinate, the tag function will attach the...
by Gary Menger | Nov 12, 2020 | Menger's Musings
November is here, which means that Thanksgiving is right around the corner. While you will be avoiding awkward political conversations with your Great Aunt Karen, turkeys will be overcooked and not enjoyed by families everywhere. We started to wonder: where are...
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