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SafeGraph’s datasets include over 8 million consumer points-of-Interest (POI) in the US & Canada, which includes business listing information (like phone number, business category, open hours) and POI location info (lat/long, physical address, and building footprint).
Using an anonymized mobile GPS location data panel, we combined this with our POI data to create foot-traffic insights (visitor counts, dwell times, distances travelled, and visitor neighborhood origins) to these POI.
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We pored through spreadsheets to isolate categories and look for issues in the data. And SafeGraph was the clear winner. There was just so much weird, junky stuff in the other datasets, it just didn't pass basic data quality. So kudos to SafeGraph for a solid product.
VP, Product
We evaluated several sources of places data for the United States and found the SafeGraph data to be the best overall fit for Esri's requirements, given its relative currency, completeness, and accuracy.
ArcGIS Content CTO
SafeGraph’s precision-based places data was crucial in allowing us to scale our operations and harness a data-driven approach to expansion.
Head of Research & Data Insights
Our model hit a performance ceiling, but adding SafeGraph Patterns data helped us break a key threshold which helped us close a major deal.
Analytics Manager for CPG Vertical
Our work-from-home variable, fueled by SafeGraph data, became the dominant predictor of a new baseline and, even more, was stronger than any other economic variables we had previously used.
Partner and Co-Founder
SafeGraph data gave IdealSpot an extensive and reliable perspective on local market conditions across America and enabled IdealSpot to model business performance in ways that were impossible before.
Chief Technology Officer
Using SafeGraph’s POI and business listing data helped Dosh onboard new retailers faster onto our platform which decreased time-to-revenue, speeding up our whole business.
Director of Product Management
"We’re going a step further by measuring the tension between economic recovery and disease transmission. Other data companies only measure economic recovery. There’s a difference between how much people are buying online and how much they’re out in public."
Chief Scientific Officer
We consider SafeGraph data the ‘source of truth’ for all retail site operations. If non-client data sources don’t match to SafeGraph data, we consider it bad information.
Founder and CIO at Footmarks
From the beginning of our data sourcing process, SafeGraph provided the most comprehensive and actionable POI dataset. Their coverage of the top 1,000 restaurants is unmatched and invaluable.
Senior Manager of Market, Customer, and Competitive Intelligence at Sysco
The community has a huge amount of information and assistance available for working with geolocation data. It's been very cool to see all the research and findings coming in, whether they're about COVID or anything else.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Seattle University
The community is a great place to develop research ideas and discuss and get feedback on findings.
Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Illinios
The ability to get feedback, find quick answers to questions, and to collaborate with like-minded people is extremely valuable.
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
SafeGraph data is at the core of our data pipeline and plays an integral role in completing the customer journey from exposure to in-store visit, transforming OOH into a performance-based media.
SVP of Marketing & Innovation
SafeGraphPlaces helps us more accurately create location-based audiences -- the result of this is more efficient ad spend for our clients.
Executive Director, JubaPlus (Media Storm's Data Science Group)
Forecasting models quickly became irrelevant when COVID-19 hit. We turned to SafeGraph Patterns foot traffic data to radically improve downstream visibility and build greater trust with customers.
CEO, Fiddlehead
We pored through spreadsheets to isolate categories and look for issues in the data. And SafeGraph was the clear winner. There was just so much weird, junky stuff in the other datasets, it just didn't pass basic data quality. So kudos to SafeGraph for a solid product.
VP, Product
We evaluated several sources of places data for the United States and found the SafeGraph data to be the best overall fit for Esri's requirements, given its relative currency, completeness, and accuracy.
ArcGIS Content CTO
SafeGraph’s precision-based places data was crucial in allowing us to scale our operations and harness a data-driven approach to expansion.
Head of Research & Data Insights
Our model hit a performance ceiling, but adding SafeGraph Patterns data helped us break a key threshold which helped us close a major deal.
Analytics Manager for CPG Vertical
Our work-from-home variable, fueled by SafeGraph data, became the dominant predictor of a new baseline and, even more, was stronger than any other economic variables we had previously used.
Partner and Co-Founder
SafeGraph data gave IdealSpot an extensive and reliable perspective on local market conditions across America and enabled IdealSpot to model business performance in ways that were impossible before.
Chief Technology Officer
Using SafeGraph’s POI and business listing data helped Dosh onboard new retailers faster onto our platform which decreased time-to-revenue, speeding up our whole business.
Director of Product Management
"We’re going a step further by measuring the tension between economic recovery and disease transmission. Other data companies only measure economic recovery. There’s a difference between how much people are buying online and how much they’re out in public."
Chief Scientific Officer
We consider SafeGraph data the ‘source of truth’ for all retail site operations. If non-client data sources don’t match to SafeGraph data, we consider it bad information.
Founder and CIO at Footmarks
From the beginning of our data sourcing process, SafeGraph provided the most comprehensive and actionable POI dataset. Their coverage of the top 1,000 restaurants is unmatched and invaluable.
Senior Manager of Market, Customer, and Competitive Intelligence at Sysco
The community has a huge amount of information and assistance available for working with geolocation data. It's been very cool to see all the research and findings coming in, whether they're about COVID or anything else.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Seattle University
The community is a great place to develop research ideas and discuss and get feedback on findings.
Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Illinios
The ability to get feedback, find quick answers to questions, and to collaborate with like-minded people is extremely valuable.
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
SafeGraph data is at the core of our data pipeline and plays an integral role in completing the customer journey from exposure to in-store visit, transforming OOH into a performance-based media.
SVP of Marketing & Innovation
SafeGraphPlaces helps us more accurately create location-based audiences -- the result of this is more efficient ad spend for our clients.
Executive Director, JubaPlus (Media Storm's Data Science Group)
Forecasting models quickly became irrelevant when COVID-19 hit. We turned to SafeGraph Patterns foot traffic data to radically improve downstream visibility and build greater trust with customers.
CEO, Fiddlehead
