Welcome to the PlaceIQ Social Distance Tracker. The second Reemergence we saw last issue has tempered a bit. A confluence of events — rising vaccine deployment, dropping case numbers, improving weather, federal stimulus, and more — drove people out of...
By Sami Badawi, Sr. Software Engineer, PlaceIQ Big data has helped us in solving some very sophisticated engineering problems. But in turn, as those who work with complex data know, it also creates architectural challenges. At PlaceIQ, it’s critical that we properly...
Welcome (back) to the PlaceIQ Social Distance Tracker. Today we’re going to look at our Second Reemergence. Foot traffic has dramatically increased over the last few weeks as quarantine fatigue, vaccinations, declining case counts, weather, and more encouraged us to...
In Part II of our 2020 in Hindsight, we’re sharing the three big themes of success we’ve observed in our data over the last year. As consumers changed their priorities and preferences, brands that followed these rules were set up to win against the competition. Be...
In this blog, we’re taking a look at 2020 in retrospect – outlining the major phases during the pandemic, and unpacking how consumer behaviors changed during the year in reaction to social distancing. We examined which analyses we can project into 2021 to...
By Stefan Heinze, Data Scientist, PlaceIQ Whether you’re a data scientist, machine learning engineer, or software engineer working in Spark, knowing the basics of application profiling is a must. But profiling Spark applications is challenging, particularly if...
