by Elyse Menger | Feb 2, 2023 | Current Events
Just last week, the Biden administration announced proposed changes on how they will collect data on employees which would allow them to specify a more specific race than only “white” or “Asian”. This comes from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) who has kept...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 26, 2023 | Current Events, Demographics
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...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 12, 2023 | Current Events, Maps
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...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 12, 2023 | Current Events
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...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 21, 2022 | CrimeRisk, Current Events
Last week, Starbucks announced that it was permanently closing 16 locations due to crime concerns, five of which are located in their headquarter city of Seattle. They aren’t the only business experiencing higher than average crime. After a string of armed robberies...
by Elyse Menger | Jun 9, 2022 | Current Events, Maps
In a classic good news/bad news scenario, the recently released Social Security and Medicare trustees report says that the funds won’t be going broke quite as quickly as feared. The bad news, of course, is that a deferral of the inevitable by a year or two doesn’t...
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