We Had ChatGPT Write a Blog Post: How’d They Do?
We’ve heard about students using AI tools to help them write essays for university with varying degrees of success. So we wondered—could ChatGPT write the AGS blog? We asked the ChatGPT bot to write an essay on using demographics for retail site selection, which you...
Grist for the AGS Data Mill
Over the years, our data library has grown from a few hundred demographic variables to well over forty thousand elements that now covers both the United States and Canada. While we are admittedly data geeks, guilty of building data just for the fun of it, many of our...
Flooding During a Drought?
The last few weeks in Southern California have been, well, a bit soggy. To those who know the area, it is either Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood or a 1970’s cheesy Leslie Nielson disaster movie. There is nothing between the two extremes as the occasional errant summer...
U-Haul Growth States: A Deeper Look
Each year, U-Haul releases a list of states experiencing growth based on their own data for equipment demand for one-way trucks which they call the “U-Haul Growth Index” (U-Haul Growth States of 2022: Texas, Florida Top List Again | U-Haul (uhaul.com)). The 2022 list...
Statistical Biases: A Closer Look at the Moving Company Data
This week, we looked at the U-Haul article that declared the top growth states for population based on where one-way trucks are leaving from, and where they are going. But as it turns out, they aren’t the only company that creates this list, in fact, we found 5...
2022 In Review
2022 was a big year for AGS, and we wanted to look back on some of the things that made this past year memorable. We added thousands of variables to our library with new databases like Panorama CanAm, Vital Statistics, Chronic Health and Risk Factors, and of course,...
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