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...
June 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 June 2022. Cubit Planning Lots...
Finding the Rebels-Happy 4th of July
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence, freeing the 13 colonies from the monarchy of Britain. For King George III, it was basically a declaration of war, but for the colonies, now free, independent states, it...
Wildfire Season 2022
The talk of a bad wildfire season is everywhere in the news, as 3 million acres of U.S. land has already been burned this year due to wildfires. With extreme heat warnings across the country and low amounts of rainfall, this summer could be brutal for wildfires. Here...
Quirky Geography: Commonwealth Versus State
Geographic naming conventions can be delightfully quirky. The United States of America is a federation of States. Well, except for the four that aren’t because they are Commonwealths. Is there something special about Kentucky which makes it a Commonwealth rather than...
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