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Hi, I am using the Spending Pattern in the USA data, and I am wondering if the spending data is lagged a few days or anything? Because when I drew the graphs of the daily spending, it looks like Monday has the most spending in a week, way higher then that of weekends.

Hi all,
I'm working with the spending pattern data and noticed that for NAICS 7211 (hotels), the number of POIs with spending data seems very low.

Hi there, I came across the note that geometry variables for Safegraph are available via a separate dataset: Global Places (POI) & Geometry. However, I wasn’t able to locate this dataset in SafeGraph on Dewey. Has it been moved to a different location, renamed, or removed?

Can you provide some insight into the country of origin of customers in the Safegraph Spend panel? Do all customers originate from the U.S.? I see that there is a "customer_home_city" variable, but do the values in this variable include other countries as well (e.g., Montreal, Canada)?

I am currently working with the SafeGraph dataset and noticed that it provides the most recent state of Points of Interest (POIs). However, I am particularly interested in accessing historical POI records to analyze changes over time.
I also saw the "open date" field in the data structure, but it appears to be available for only a limited number of records. I was wondering if there is a more comprehensive historical dataset available that includes past POI records or any way to track changes over time.
Could you please let me know if such data is available and how I might be able to access it?

Hello, I am working with SafeGraph Spend Patterns POI data, and I have a couple of questions.

We are using mobility and foot traffic data to identify the number of unique POIs for certain business types. While comparing the number of health centers across different years using the same NAICS code, we noticed a significant increase from 2021 to 2023.

Hello. I am working with pass_by data that contains retail store visitors and visits information without the NAICS code, which makes it challenging to categorize POIs. My current approach to assigning NAICS categories is to leverage Placekey to link pass_by to SafeGraph. Then, I could use Brand Info from SafeGraph to determine the corresponding NAICS codes for each POI in pass_by.

I noticed some fluctuations while plotting the average total spend and raw visit counts of some Starbucks stores we have pooled from our study.