The Return of the Discount Clothing Store
With vaccination rates going up, and infection rates declining in many parts of the country, shoppers are once again hitting their local malls and shopping centers. While some are backing away from retail, discount clothing stores like Ross and T.J. Maxx are welcoming...
April Round-Up
At the end of each month, the AGS team takes a look 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 April 2021. Did the...
Population Changes by Decade-1970 to 2020
Just this week, the Census Bureau released the long-awaited apportionment counts, and the population totals by state. We had some fun with the new data, looking at population changes since the 1970’s by block group, smoothed using a five-mile radius around each...
25 Years of AGS- Gary’s Perspective
Like many companies, Applied Geographic Solutions was born of a combination of necessity and entrepreneurial drive. The necessity came about because the company I worked for at the time – Urban Decision Systems – was sold at the end of 1995. The preferred buyer was...
Dashboards, Surrogates and Wonky Gauges
If I were to ask people what their car dashboard gauge labelled “Speed” measures, all but that annoying engineer with the pocket protector would say, duh, the speed of the car. Obviously. But they would be wrong. The speedometer measures the rotation speed of the...
Reaching and Acquiring Customers in Your Market
Over the last two decades, many shoppers have abandoned traditional brick and mortar retail for the ease of internet ordering. While the internet might seem to have removed geography from the equation, this is simply not the case. More than ever, a retailer or...
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