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Northern Michigan Search Interest Forecast Nov-Jan 2024
This is my forecast of Google search interest for places in Northern Michigan during the next three months. I forecast the Upper Peninsula to have higher than normal search interest and the Lower Peninsula to have slightly lower than normal search interest. This month, I have created several more figures that will help motivate future…
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How I developed my idea for the Northern Michigan search interest project.
How we come up with a data science, analytics, or data based research project is the subject of both common lore and debate, or at least debate as defined by dissenting behavior. Common lore dictates that we start with the business question that we are most concerned with irregardless of available data and methodologies and…
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Northern Pines
Humans find beauty in order, even in our natural environment. Consider the cookie cutter yards of suburban America. These are neatly mowed and landscaped with clean lines. Brush piles that are hiding places for small animals are removed. Even the forbs (weeds), which are choice wildlife food sources, are tediously killed leaving the non-nutritious grass.…
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Northern Michigan Search Interest: November, October, December Forecast
This is the forecast document I provided for Northern Michigan Place Search Interest back at the beginning of October. This version had an added section for places in the Northern Lower Peninsula with higher search interest for October and November. Northern Michigan search interest exhibits high seasonality which favors summer months even more than the…