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Introducing Expanded SafeGraph Category Tags: More Granular Than NAICS Codes

Introducing Expanded SafeGraph Category Tags: More Granular Than NAICS Codes

We’ve expanded Category Tags beyond restaurants to cover other types of POIs that have many subcategories falling under the same NAICS code.
Are US Inflation Trends Reflected in SafeGraph Spend?

Are US Inflation Trends Reflected in SafeGraph Spend?

In this article, we compare consumer spending across fast food, fuel, and furniture industries from December 2020 to February 2022 to glean whether Spend is signaling inflation.
SafeGraph's Data Sourcing Process

SafeGraph's Data Sourcing Process

Some of the most common questions we receive are focused on how we build and source our datasets. In this blog post, we break down the sourcing process for each of our datasets.

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Comparing SafeGraph Aggregate Spend to the Census Monthly Retail Trade Survey
Comparing SafeGraph Aggregate Spend to the Census Monthly Retail Trade Survey
May 13, 2022
 by 
Garrett Hoffman
Introducing Expanded SafeGraph Category Tags: More Granular Than NAICS Codes
Introducing Expanded SafeGraph Category Tags: More Granular Than NAICS Codes
May 12, 2022
 by 
Michael Taylor
Demystifying the SafeGraph Facts
Demystifying the SafeGraph Facts
May 3, 2022
 by 
Auren Hoffman
Real Estate is Getting Left Behind in the Data Revolution
Real Estate is Getting Left Behind in the Data Revolution
Apr 27, 2022
 by 
Auren Hoffman
SafeGraph Hires a Chief Revenue Officer: Welcome Russ Thau
SafeGraph Hires a Chief Revenue Officer: Welcome Russ Thau
Apr 18, 2022
 by 
Auren Hoffman
Are US Inflation Trends Reflected in SafeGraph Spend?
Are US Inflation Trends Reflected in SafeGraph Spend?
Apr 14, 2022
 by 
Garrett Hoffman and Annelise Dutcher
Using Connected Vehicle Data and Parking Lot Polygons to Attribute POI Visits
Using Connected Vehicle Data and Parking Lot Polygons to Attribute POI Visits
Apr 1, 2022
 by 
Eugene Chong
Fast Food Brands: The Rise and Fall
Fast Food Brands: The Rise and Fall
Mar 31, 2022
 by 
Nick Huntington-Klein
It’s Our Moral Obligation to Make Data More Accessible
It’s Our Moral Obligation to Make Data More Accessible
Mar 30, 2022
 by 
Auren Hoffman
SafeGraph’s Geometry Dataset now includes Parking Lots
SafeGraph’s Geometry Dataset now includes Parking Lots
Mar 25, 2022
 by 
SafeGraph Engineering
Remapping the Entire Earth
Remapping the Entire Earth
Mar 22, 2022
 by 
SafeGraph
Building a Killer Go to Market Strategy
Building a Killer Go to Market Strategy
Mar 15, 2022
 by 
SafeGraph
Moore's Law Strikes the Satellite Industry
Moore's Law Strikes the Satellite Industry
Mar 8, 2022
 by 
SafeGraph
Maintaining a Source of Truth in a Dynamically Changing World
Maintaining a Source of Truth in a Dynamically Changing World
Feb 23, 2022
 by 
Mia Litman
Analyzing Spending Behavior at Multiple Levels of Granularity
Analyzing Spending Behavior at Multiple Levels of Granularity
Feb 16, 2022
 by 
Nick Huntington-Klein
Global Port POI and Geometry Data for Improved Supply Chain Analysis
Global Port POI and Geometry Data for Improved Supply Chain Analysis
Feb 11, 2022
 by 
Fletcher Berryman