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Hi Sir/Madam,
I hope this email finds you well. I appreciate it if you can share insights on three questions I have about branded POIs.

1. I can’t understand what the difference is between these two variables, as they appear to share the same definition. Could you please help clarify?
   WORK_BEHAVIOR_DEVICE_HOME_AREAS - This column is the same as work_hours_device_home_are as but only includes devices that dwelled for at least 6 hours and excludes devices whose visit is in the same gh7 as their home location.
   DEVICE_DAYTIME_AREAS - This column is the same as work_hours_device_home_areas but only includes devices that dwelled for at least 6 hours and excludes devices whose visit is in the same gh7 as their home location.

2. Regarding DISTANCE_FROM_PRIMARY_DAYTIME_LOCATION, does this intend to capture only local trips (i.e. errands) using the “work” location as the base, or, does this capture all trips (including commutes to/from home) utilizing the work location as the base? This is to say, if I am interested in understanding commuting behavior of people based on the location of their employment (not based on the location of their home), does this variable speak to that?

Hello,

I was looking at the definition of visits in the Advan FAQ, which states that a single device can only contribute to visits once per day. How does that work ith the visits by each hour field?

I see a large number of POIs that had an enormous and usually permanent drop in visits/visitors starting in June 2023. This drop is especially prominent in NYC. I can't find any explanation for this.

Hello, I am working with Advan data and looking for specific data for a POI. However, it is missing and I cannot triangulate it with lat/long data either.

I'd like some clarification around discrepancies in placekeys between Advan and Safegraph.

Hello,

I have a couple of questions about the Advan Monthly Patterns - Home Panel Summary.

Using the Weekly Patterns - Foot Traffic - Full Historical Data, I noticed that several rows have identical values for raw_visit_count, raw_visitor_count, and origin_home_cbg, as well as the visitor count within origin_home_cbg, even though these locations have different placekey values. I checked their parent_placekey, and while some of them share the same parent, others do not. Additionally, I examined whether all child_placekey values under the same parent_placekey had matching raw_visit_count, raw_visitor_count, and origin_home_cbg, but that wasn't always the case.