Trade Area Sensitivity: Positional and Size Effects
In the first article in this series, we looked at edge effects – specifically, differences in trade area statistics based on the methodology of retrieval. Here we look at the effect of minor positional (where is the site?) and size (how big is the trade area?) on...
Shop Small this Holiday Season
It’s unavoidable at this point: the holidays are here. Turn on the news these days, and you are hit with information about the supply chain crisis, and everyone from store owners to news anchors begging you to do your holiday shopping early. As you think about gift...
Directional Colloquialisms
The convention in cartography is that unless otherwise specified, up on the map is always north. It wasn’t always this way. Different cultures used different, and often highly inconsistent, conventions which had cultural or religious meaning. What sealed the “north is...
Deep Dive into 2020 Census Block Data
To further help users understand how the privacy budget has affected small area data, we decided to deep dive into a specific area to see how it looks on the ground. We chose a block group which we know that has not changed over the past ten years, located in a...
October 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 October 2021. CoreLogic October...
Snapshot 1.3 New Features
The Snapshot data engine has recently been upgraded with several new features and capabilities. Briefly, these include – Additional documentation tools on database creation, including statistics useful for checking that data loaded correctly (totals and extremes for...
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