by Elyse Menger | Aug 6, 2020 | Partner Posts
Over ten years ago, I was complaining to my friend, Anthony, how painful it was to pull Census demographic data for engineering projects. Anthony said that he could build a tool to automate this painful task. We partnered up and used seed funding from a local...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 30, 2020 | Maps
August is often an exciting time in college towns, as waves of college students head back to their campuses all across the United States. Where exactly do these students live, and where do they live once they graduate? And what is the makeup of these small towns? As...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 30, 2020 | Ask AGS (FAQs)
The CrimeRisk score for my area is 208. What does that actually mean? CrimeRisk scores are indexed to the national level, which is given a score of 100. A value of 100 for a local area means that its expected risk is about equal to the national average. A score of 200...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 30, 2020 | Database Overview
Last week, we introduced distance weighting to trade area analysis to show the value of understanding the internal patterns within a trade area. Here we use a similar concept and apply it to the common practice of building a customer profile using Panorama...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 23, 2020 | Product Sneak Peek, Snapshot API
Most of the simple site selection methods pioneered several decades ago are still widely used despite their known shortcomings. We all know fully well that the probability that a resident will be a customer is much higher if that customer lives one mile away than if...
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