by Gary Menger | Mar 18, 2021 | Covid-19 and Data, Menger's Musings
The world of neighborhood demographics can be almost glacial. Long term trends may be understood, but people are generally sticky and slow to respond to change. In the mid-1960’s at the peak of the American automobile industry, the writing was already on the wall for...
by Gary Menger | Mar 18, 2021 | Covid-19 and Data, Menger's Musings
As most will know, this week marks the one-year anniversary of what has turned out to be a very long three weeks to flatten the curve. No area of the country – indeed, the world – has been spared from the substantial loss of life, personal freedom, and economic...
by Elyse Menger | Jan 7, 2021 | Meet the AGS Team, Menger's Musings
I don’t think it’s any big secret that I (Elyse Menger Robinson, Director of Marketing) am Gary Menger’s youngest child. After many years in non-profit fundraising, I took an offer to come work for the family business at the end of 2019 and haven’t looked back. As AGS...
by Gary Menger | Dec 31, 2020 | Menger's Musings, Product Sneak Peek
2020 Reflections Throughout history, the regular appearance of pandemics has had a profound effect on the cultures and nations in their paths. While certainly not yet on the level of those plagues that toppled empires, the COVID-19 epidemic will likely be remembered...
by Gary Menger | Dec 10, 2020 | Menger's Musings
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...
by Gary Menger | Dec 3, 2020 | Covid-19 and Data, Menger's Musings
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...
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