Food Deserts and Retail Gap

Access to fresh, healthy and affordable food is a problem for many low-income Americans. In some neighborhoods, the closest supermarket could be miles away. Those that don’t have transportation, or are low-income, may only have a local store to shop at, where prices...

Hybrid Weather Risk

No matter where you live, there is some kind of weather related natural disaster that can affect you and your home. For some of the country, there may actually be more than one weather risk. April typically means spring has arrived, though tell that to those that are...

A Closer Look at Freeway Maps

This week, we unveiled new features for Freeway, the drive time engine of choice for trade area delineation and retail sales forecasting models. The first and best engine has been reworked and expanded to include a range of new features including global coverage,...

The Continental Divide: A Map Series

Data can tell us all kinds of things: household information, employment, product consumption, lifestyle preferences, crime data and more. When we combine raw data with products like Panorama or Demographic Dimensions, patterns emerge. In our new map series, the...

The Meaning of Place

In thinking about the “A Tale of Two Cities” article on the home cities of the two Super Bowl teams, the question naturally arises: What do we mean by ‘San Francisco’ and ‘Kansas City’? As always, the answer to a seemingly simple question is rarely simple. Are the San...