Unemployment Estimates after Ten Months
Earlier this week, we released our fortieth edition of the weekly unemployment estimates that we started at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. We naively thought that the crisis – or at least the employment effects of it – would be but an unpleasant blip in the...
Holiday Crime Risk
It’s Christmastime in Chicago, and a family is planning on going on vacation for the holidays to visit family members abroad. They think that they have done everything right: they told neighbors that they will be out of town, set timers for their lamps and have locks...
The Myth of ‘Data Science’
Over the past several years, the term ‘data science’ has emerged as one of those fashionable buzzwords that I hope will soon disappear. The term data science implies that its practitioners operate within the firm guidelines of bias-free and replicable empirical...
Holiday Travel
2019 was predicted to be a record-breaking year for holiday travel, with an estimated 115.6 million people traveling between December 21 and January 1, according to AAA. This year, the Deloitte Pre-Thanksgiving Holiday Pulse Survey found that 65% of those surveyed...
Pandemics and Geography
The COVID-19 pandemic has attracted the attention of many data scientists who have happily set off to apply their methods to epidemiology, and unwittingly have waded directly into the complex issues which ‘quantitative geography’ often painfully learned of some...
Retail Gap: RV Dealers
The RV business has always been volatile – with sales early to decline in a recession, and late to improve in a recovery. Total unit shipments steadily improved from the 2009 low of 165,700 units to a high of 504,600 units in 2017 (RV Industry Association,...
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