by Gary Menger | Apr 14, 2022 | Current Events, Demographics, Menger's Musings
One of the most noted trends during the COVID years has been the explosion in people working from home. In the early part of the pandemic, anybody who could possibly work from home was required to do so, especially if they weren’t deemed to be essential. Manhattan...
by Gary Menger | Feb 3, 2022 | Menger's Musings
How frequently should your demographics be updated? Depending on the specific creator – and there are not very many – that update can be annual, semi-annual, or quarterly. The argument goes something like this: the census is the most accurate data source, but after a...
by Gary Menger | Jan 20, 2022 | Census, Menger's Musings
As a rule, we at AGS are not overly keen on the approach of talking about competitors negatively. Perhaps it is our polite Canadian heritage, where we are more likely to say that we are sorry for something we didn’t do than point fingers at the ones who did....
by Elyse Menger | Dec 16, 2021 | Menger's Musings
A few months ago, we got an interesting request. The folks at the North Pole were looking for data to keep Santa safe and improve his gift efficiency at Christmas. Personally, I have long admired Santa, both for his generosity, but also for his total disregard of...
by Elyse Menger | Dec 2, 2021 | Canada Data, Census, Menger's Musings
The recent publication of the redistricting release of the 2020 census has resulted in some discussion about some of its more surprising results. The white population declined from 223.5 to 204.7 million between 2010 and 2020, by all accounts an unprecedented change....
by Gary Menger | Nov 4, 2021 | Menger's Musings
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...
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