The neighborhood spending capture and leakage map that nobody had until now. Modeling and mapping US consumer spending patterns down to the Census Block Group level. Every retailer, restaurateur, and city planner asks the same question — how much do the people in this neighborhood actually spend, and on what? The
A practical guide to site selection and sample sizing for training AI visitation models in urban spaces As urban planners and parks departments increasingly turn to artificial intelligence and big data to understand community mobility, a fundamental truth remains: the digital world must be anchored in physical reality. At CityData.
Quantifying Community Vibrancy: How Somerset County Leverages CityEconomy and CityEvents AI for Economic Sovereignty The New Frontier of Municipal Intelligence and Economic Resilience The historical management of municipal economic development has long been constrained by a reliance on static indicators and qualitative anecdotes. For decades, county administrators and economic planners
From Pixels to Precision: Perfecting ground truth surveys and elevating urban analytics with Computer Vision AI The Gold Standard of Mobility Intelligence In an era defined by rapid urbanization and the need for resilient civic planning, municipal agencies face a critical mandate: they must deeply understand how people move, interact,
Applying Location-based Big Data for Analyzing Global Events The 2025 Boston Marathon was a spectacular display of endurance, drawing over 30,000 participating runners and hundreds of thousands of spectators lining the 26.2-mile course from Hopkinton to Boylston Street. Taking place on Monday, April 21, 2025—the traditional Patriots&
About Location-Based Visits and AI Models for Usage Intelligence for Parks, Business Districts, Event Venues Municipal agencies are increasingly turning to GovTech solutions, geospatial artificial intelligence (AI), and location-based data to build smarter, more resilient cities. However, procuring the right technology requires rigorous vetting. At CityData, we welcome the hard
Estimated and Observed Monthly Visitation for 2022 & Regional Performance: An Analytical Report Executive Summary * Objective: This report presents a detailed analytical model and the resulting estimated monthly visitation counts for 99 parks and trails within the Des Moines Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the 2022 calendar year. * Data Availability
The New Science of Transforming Mobility Telemetry into Real-World Event Intelligence For decades, urban planners, event organizers, and emergency management directors operated in a world of educated guesses. Understanding human movement traditionally relied on a patchwork of analog methodologies: manual turnstile clicks, scattered ticket sales, post-event surveys, and aerial photography.
Authored by Dr. Pieter Fourie with Team CityData.AI
Celebrating our 6th consecutive year alongside the industry’s giants—bootstrapped, profitable, and powered by innovation. In the rapidly evolving landscape of the public sector, technology has ceased to be a luxury—it is now the very backbone of effective governance. From small municipalities to sprawling state agencies, government leaders
The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Epic Highs and Lows If you are reading this, you probably have an itch that only a pair of worn-in hiking boots and thin mountain air can scratch. We’ve all seen the standard travel brochures, but at CityData, we believe the
The Executive Playbook for Rescuing High-Value Customer Engagements Introduction: The High Stakes of Enterprise and Government Churn In the complex ecosystems of enterprise and government contracting, the loss of a customer—or churn—is not a simple line item on a balance sheet. It is a seismic event with compounding