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Geographic Center of Businesses

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Intro  A real-world question that a business might ask, "Where is the weighted center of my locations?"  Here are the locations for two businesses that are growing and wanted to know where the center of the stores are, by the weighted center, in order to build their headquarters and distribution centers in order to serve their locations with the most efficiency.  Methods  The companies were weighted zip code, not by physical address. This was all completed in ArcGIS pro.                                                                              Results  The final result was this map.  Discussion  While they could have asked to build in the center by distance, they wanted to weigh the center to serve the most locations in the most efficient matter.  For t...