2020B Release: Data in the Times of COVID-19

This week, we released our latest data release, 2020B. As we work through these unprecedented times, our data has evolved and changed just as our world is. From new database releases, free data offerings, and changes to our existing data, here is a look at AGS’...

20A Release: MRI Dataset Updates

The 20A AGS data release, on schedule for the end of the month, will include a full update to the GfK MRI dataset to the latest released survey. As with every release, the content of these variables can change, especially those related to individual brands, stores, or...

2020B Sneak Peek: Non-Resident Population

The AGS ‘2020B’ release in November will include the fruits of our lockdown efforts over these past few months, most of which have been leaked on these pages. Earlier this year, we debuted a new data set: Non-Resident Population. On any given night in a normal year,...

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Void Analysis with Sites USA

Empty leases are one of those constant struggles for any landlord with retail space. Finding the right tenant to match your available space and matching the other tenants in your center can be a hard thing to do. Then there is the global pandemic. Large and small...

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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...

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The Curse of Interesting Data

Over the years, AGS has created a number of data products which have been widely commended as being as interesting and sometimes even fascinating. And many were commercial failures. These days, we are often asked “do you have mobile data?” The GPS enabled mobile...

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Analytics in the Trenches

“There are two things that you should never see being made, sausage and demographics” -- Jim Stone, Geovue, 1998. Today we tour the sausage factory, at least as it relates to our recent foray into weekly small area unemployment estimates. Typically, our models are run...

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Data Focus: Ancestry

Among the many current-year estimates we build from the American Community Survey and decennial Census is ancestry. The ACS asks the question in the following manner – "What is this person's ancestry or ethnic origin? (For example: Italian, Jamaican, African American,...

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