by Gary Menger | Sep 1, 2022 | Maps, Product Sneak Peek
Many data sources which appear to be national coverage at a specific geography level will often have missing records. There are a wide variety of methods which can be used to ‘infill’ missing records from the simplistic (assign it the average value or a geographically...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 25, 2022 | Maps
It’s back to school season, which makes us want to buy a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils. But as children go back to school, the place where they are attending might be different. Of all of the things that have changed for children since the start of the Covid-19...
by Elyse Menger | Jun 30, 2022 | Maps
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence, freeing the 13 colonies from the monarchy of Britain. For King George III, it was basically a declaration of war, but for the colonies, now free, independent states, it...
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...
by Gary Menger | Apr 7, 2022 | Maps, Retail Data
Many users of site reports tend to look most carefully at the first number which appears on the report – the estimate of the current population – as the primary indicator of the likely market size in a trade area. This is most common during the initial phase of...
by Elyse Menger | Mar 31, 2022 | Current Events, Maps
If you’ve been watching March Madness, then you may have noticed that there is something absolutely mad about the tournament. They section the tournament into four regions: West, East, South and Midwest. As geographers, we encourage this strategy. But how they come up...
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