July 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 July 2022. SiteSeer Very few...
A Playlist for the Data Scientist
To be a data person is to be a tragic and lonely creature riding the roller coaster that comes along with trying to answer a question with error laden data that doesn’t measure what you think it does. So, we came up with a play list that mirrors your typical day (and...
Seattle, Starbucks and Crime
Last week, Starbucks announced that it was permanently closing 16 locations due to crime concerns, five of which are located in their headquarter city of Seattle. They aren’t the only business experiencing higher than average crime. After a string of armed robberies...
Taking The Plunge: Why You Should Be Using the 2020 Geography Now
Those of you who are regular Profile readers will know that we at AGS are not exactly enamored with the application of the privacy budget concept to the census data releases. Much ink has been devoted to talking about the problems with using the census data and AGS’...
Database Overview: Non-Resident Population
What started out as a project to keep the data team busy (and inside) during the early days of Covid lockdown has quickly become one of our customer’s favorite databases. The impact of the non-resident population on a site – restaurant or retail – can be substantial,...
Where Did Everybody Go?
In Toronto, where I grew up, the summer ritual for many middle-income families included the trek from the city to cottage country every weekend from Victoria Day (May 24th) to Labor Day. The weekly migration of the herds could have easily been a National Geographic...
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