Estimating Missing Data
Many data sources which appear to be national coverage at a specific geography level will often have missing records. There are a wide variety of methods which can be used to ‘infill’ missing records from the simplistic (assign it the average value or a geographically...
Back to School, But Which School?
It’s back to school season, which makes us want to buy a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils. But as children go back to school, the place where they are attending might be different. Of all of the things that have changed for children since the start of the Covid-19...
August 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 August 2022. SiteSeer You can’t...
Crickets, Revisited
During the years prior to the 2020 census, many in the industry understood that the Census Bureau was headed down a path which was sure to reduce the utility of the decennial census. The essential claim was that it was possible to match census respondents to geocoded...
The Ever-Shifting Sands of Geography Rosters
It is a familiar story heard here at AGS… “I loaded the data that I received from you into my GIS application, but when I map it, there is a county with no data. Please take a look at the attached map. Why don’t you have data for this area?” The accompanying map...
Environmental Databases: Precipitation
In North Texas, like most areas of the southwest, it has been a dry summer. Drought conditions now covers the majority of the area, and Fort Worth hasn’t seen measurable rain since June. It’s becoming blatantly obvious who has a sprinkler system and who does not. But...
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