In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use basic pandas functionality to select and manipulate data from a spatially enabled dataframe in a python notebook. Pandas is a fast, powerful, flexible and easy to use open source data analysis and manipulation tool, built on...
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Creating Bar Charts with Python Notebooks
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a simple bar chart in an ArcGIS Pro python notebook. Pro includes a series of pre-installed Python packages. One of these packages is matplotlib, a plotting library which enables you to create bar charts, scatterplots and...
Tutorial: Accessing Raster Data Properties with Python in ArcGIS Pro
In this tutorial, we’ll use the Catalog pane and the ArcPy package to access raster data properties inside ArcGIS Pro. The ArcPy package features a raster module for working with raster imagery. We’ll use it to reference a raster dataset on disk and access some of its...
Visualizing Denver Area Home Values with R
Many of our readers regularly work with U.S. Census data for mapping and analysis purposes. Whether you work with these datasets every day or just every now and then to create a map or graph you’ve no doubt discovered how difficult it can be to decipher census table...
Visualizing Home Values in Texas with R
Many of our readers regularly work with U.S. Census data for mapping and analysis purposes. Whether you work with these datasets every day or just every now and then to create a map or graph you’ve no doubt discovered how difficult it can be to decipher census table...
Spring Sale on GIS Training Has Begun!
Our annual Spring Sale at Geospatial Training Services has begun! From April 25th - May 31st you can save 20% on any of our training events. This includes in-person and live-online training along with all our self-paced training. Self-paced training includes our...
Visualizing California Wildfire Activity with R
From 2011 to 2020, there was an average of 62,805 wildfires annually and an average of 7.5 million acres impacted annually. In 2020, 58,950 wildfires burned 10.1 million acres, the second-most acreage impacted in a year since 1960; nearly 40% of these acres were in...
Tutorial: Sorting Data by Area with ArcGIS Pro
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to calculate the area of a polygon dataset and sort the results. If you have a set of polygons, you can use easily calculate and add the area of each polygon to its attribute table. This is what we’ll do in this tutorial for a set of...
Leaving Los Angeles Flow Map
Flow maps, like the one you see below, provide a great way of visualizing the movement of variables between an origin and a destination. 2021 saw a 20% rise in movers for the year compared to 2020, with an estimated 56% of Americans moving in 2021 while just...
Creating Animated Maps with R
Animated maps, like the one you see below, provide a powerful enhancement to show how data evolves over time. In this tutorial you'll learn how to use R with the ggmap, tidyverse, and gganimate libraries to produce animated maps like you see below. This animated map...