Data for the Greater Good

What makes data and statistical analysis wonderful is the ability to optimize your research or business and take it to the next level. But what about using data to optimize non-profit organizations and enhance the work that they do? A little data can go a long way to...

Dealing with the 2020 Census

A tremendous effort in the analytics world is devoted to the task of data preparation and cleansing. Data exchanges refer to ‘curated’ data, which suggests that the suppliers of that data have gone to the trouble of estimating missing fields, reigning in outliers, and...

Optimizing Online Ads with Data

  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...

LARC GIS Coming Soon

Lodging Analytics Research and Consulting (LARC) provides a full suite of premium services to assist real estate and lodging companies to formulate astute business decisions through transparent and advanced analytics driven forecasting. Later this year, they will...

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Spatial Time Series Analysis

One of the more persistent issues in geospatial analysis is that of consistency in time series analysis. We can’t help but want to compare the growth of one city against another over time. Time is the easy part – a year today is the same as a year in millennia past,...

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Changing Regional Fortunes

A few weeks ago, we examined the changes to the patterns of manufacturing employment and a natural follow-up is to consider the impacts on regional income. Income is particularly difficult to study over time since the geographic study areas change over time as does...

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Measuring The Quality of Life

What makes one area more desirable as a place to live than others? We suspect that if we asked one hundred people that question, we would get at least a hundred different answers. For decades, people headed west for the scenery, climate, leisure, and economic...

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The Decline of Manufacturing

It is common knowledge that over the past few decades, the American economy has shifted away from manufacturing as we move towards being a service and information economy.  At its peak in 1979, manufacturing employed over 19 million workers, which was over 22% of...

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September 2022 Round-up

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 September 2022. Sites USA...

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