Field Research
The Butterfly Garden Effect
How small changes to the physical environment can influence where people walk, gather, spend time, and eventually spend money.
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Raven Research
Ideas, field research, and interactive analysis about businesses, neighborhoods, markets, and the decisions that shape them.
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Local Economics
What actually makes a neighborhood economy grow?
Investment is easy to measure. Return is harder. We explore how public space, storefronts, housing, foot traffic, and local businesses interact — and where the next dollar may have the greatest effect.
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Neighborhood Investment Study
Question
Where could the next investment create the greatest local return?
Field signal
3 corridors
Compared across pedestrian activity, business density, and investment conditions.
Scenario
4 options
Explore how different interventions change the assumptions and expected outcomes.
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This research combines writing, maps, data, Insights, Analyses, and Scenarios inside a Raven workspace.
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Ideas from the field.
Research begins with a question. Raven provides a place to combine observation, evidence, models, and discussion.
Economics
Supply, demand, and the local storefront
A practical look at why some commercial corridors thrive while others struggle — even when they sit only a few blocks apart.
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Business
Where does the money leave the neighborhood?
Local revenue is only one side of the equation. Purchasing, rent, labor, inventory, and financing determine how much value remains.
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The analytical medium
More than a dashboard.
Raven workspaces bring narrative, operational data, analysis, and decision models into one place.
Read a published analysis, explore the underlying evidence, change a scenario, or create a workspace with your own team.
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Turn operational and public data into focused observations about what changed and what deserves attention.
Analyses
Combine evidence into deeper investigations of why something is happening and what matters most.
Scenarios
Change assumptions, compare alternatives, and explore the consequences of different decisions.
Workspaces
Bring writing, data, maps, analysis, and models together in a shared analytical document.
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Insights wherever the work happens.
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About Raven
Built in San Diego.
Raven Analytics studies the systems that shape local businesses and communities, then builds tools that make those systems easier to understand.
Our work sits at the intersection of economics, technology, operations, and the physical places where people live and do business.
We believe analytical tools should not be reserved for organizations with large consulting budgets and dedicated data teams.