Discussions
SafeGraph Data Sources
Is there more information on the sources of SafeGraph spending data? The documentation simply says "anonymized debit and credit card transaction data". The percentage of total spending relative to revenue reported in the company financials seem to vary across brands. We are wondering how representative the panel of consumers is and what the potential biases might be, which would be important to our search design.
Link SafeGraph Brand STOCK_SYMBOL to public company ticker
As the guidance (https://github.com/Dewey-Data/SafeGraph-PublicCompanies) claims, neither SafeGraph nor Compustat provide historical ticker information (i.e. the ticker identified by each data source is the ticker as of a particular point in time.), then is there any method that we can use to lower down the mismatch rate when linking SafeGraph with Compustat? Is "Stock Symbol" the only identifier available?
Identifying udpates to Safegraph Global POI & Geometry data
I have bulkdownloaded POI & Geometry data two months ago (April 2025). I know that the data coverage starts in 2019 and you started providing this data in 07/13/2023, And supposedly it is updated monthly on Day 5. At the moment, the latest cycle seems to be 06/05/2025.
Link SafeGraph Brand STOCK_SYMBOL to public company ticker
As the guidance (https://github.com/Dewey-Data/SafeGraph-PublicCompanies) claims, neither SafeGraph nor Compustat provide historical ticker information (i.e. the ticker identified by each data source is the ticker as of a particular point in time.), then is there any method that we can use to lower down the mismatch rate when linking SafeGraph with Compustat? Is "Stock Symbol" the only identifier available? Thank you.
Question Regarding Data Providers for SafeGraph Spend
Hi,
I’m currently exploring the SafeGraph Spend dataset and would like to better understand the sources of the data.
Could you please let me know which financial institutions (e.g., banks, credit card networks, or processors) contribute to the anonymized debit and credit card transaction data used in the Spend dataset?
If the exact institutions cannot be disclosed, any general information (e.g., whether data is sourced from major national banks, regional banks, or third-party aggregators) would be greatly appreciated.
How to filter Spend data for a specific region and get latitude/longitude?
Hi, I'm working with SafeGraph's Spend dataset and would like to focus my analysis on a specific region, such as Los Angeles.
Matching SafeGraph POI to Companies in Compustat
I'm trying to link POI data to the various companies using names or tickers; however, the all the POI data here do not have tickers. Is there a way to match POI data to company names in Compustat identifiers?
Does the spending data has any lags?
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.
Spending Pattern Coverage for NAICS 7211 (Hotels)
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.