ADVAN Monthly Patterns Data: abnormal drops starting Jan 2023?

[evan-barry-dewey (Evan Barry)]

The methodology and panel of these datasets are different and will continue to diverge over time so we’d encourage you not to try and compare them over time across attributes.

SafeGraph <> Advan Methodology Differences

Now that Advan is available on the platform, I wanted so share some methodology differences between the Advan Patterns datasets, and the one previously made available by SafeGraph. No Modeling of Visits/Visitors in Shared Geometries Advan computes the visits/visitors and other metrics inside a POI using the POI’s geometry. If a POI has shared geometry, SafeGraph assigned a subset of the above visits to each POI in the Shared Polygon. Additional historical visitation techniques are listed here.…

Advan 2023 data is available on the platform, although I believe we still need and updated summary files for NP.