Discussions
Discontinuing Advan Patterns with legacy Safegraph POIs?
Hi - I heard from a user that obtains Advan directly (not through dewey) that in February 2025 Advan discontinued the production of the weekly and monthly patterns datasets with legacy usage of Safegraph placekeys. They appear to now be producing Patterns+ which has their new version of a placekey (now called footprint_id) and the Patterns+ data is not linkable to Safegraph Spend, etc. Is Dewey still receiving a version of newly-produced data that has legacy placekeys? Are there any changes to the Advan weekly patterns data that Dewey continues to provide?
How to understand the difference between raw_visitor_counts data and visitors from different cbgs
I calculated the sum of raw_visitor_counts data for each park in Los Angeles. In addition, I calculated the total number of visitors from different cbgs for each park. I found that although their pearson correlation coefficient is high (0.99), the raw_visitor_counts data is much larger than the total number of visitor_home_cbgs.
Spending Pattern Data CUSTOMER_HOME_CITY
I read the description from the Safegraph website (https://docs.safegraph.com/docs/spend#section-customer-information), but it does not tell what the definition of the city is. Thus, I am wondering if anyone could help me with the definition of the CUSTOMER_HOME_CITY (like whether it refers to county, Census Designated Place or something else).