Data for Insurance: Please Feed the Actuaries

The insurance industry over the years has been the source of many of the statistical methods we have come to know and love (if you are in the hate category, you might want to just skip on by this). It is the ultimate exercise in probability, regardless of what is...

Data Delivery Done Right

Is your demographics provider stuck in the past? Still sending out the same database to everybody on a pre-historic physical platter which makes your otherwise despondent DVD reader feel remotely loved? These strange looking platters are interesting if you are a...

Mapping Spatially Complex Variables

Many of the subjects we map in these pages are spatially complex and the choice of geographic scale can have a significant impact on the patterns that appear to the user, especially on the physically limited maps that can be quickly displayed on web pages. Often as...

Why AGS: Historic Census Data

One of the things that makes AGS so unique as a provider of demographics is our considerable library of historical census data, all on current boundaries. The primary difficulty with temporal analysis of census data is that the geographic “containers” change...

Picking the Pickles off Your Burger

Many years ago, a major advertising battle between McDonalds and Burger King was started when Burger King promoted the slogan “Have it your way” in the jingle that included the line “special orders don’t upset us”. If that jingle is now playing in your head in an...