People Mapping: Finding and Using Demographic Data

well greetings all joseph kersky here on the esri education industry team and i'm joined by my colleague brian baldwin who's over in he's he's that way of me he's over in boston and laura bowden's in california somewhere southern california and we are glad that you're here with us in the people mapping workshop this is going to be i hope and trust that this will be extremely relevant not just because we had the 2020 census in the usa but because these data sets are at your fingertips they're easy to use and you can get to the analysis stage quickly more quickly and more readily than ever before in the past and we'll also touch on global demographic data as well so we are here at your service if there's anything we can do to help you in your education journey that is what my team and i are we've dedicated our careers to we we love working with all of you and appreciate your attendance here today at the workshop and also at the uh education summit so this is uh our contact information for brian and i laura is also searchable and findable and we have a landing page that you can see right there for the education team it is all about teaching research curriculum development facilities management on campuses and spanning from k-12 university technical community tribal colleges libraries museums wherever there's education happening we want to be able to support and encourage and do whatever we can to help you be successful here's my own pathway and i share this because not just to bore you not to bore you to tears but i i want to focus on that upper left panel there this is part of why i love teaching population because i used to work at the census bureau as a geographer and at the time that i was there we were building the tiger system which of course was the first nationwide street addressing system no it wasn't invented by google in 2005. it was actually encoded by a fleet of people working around the clock to encode all those address ranges so that we could do all the wonderful things we can do today with uh geo-enabled data sets with demographic information so i love this even if i hadn't worked at the census bureau i'd love this for many reasons that we'll talk about right here so our goals for our workshop today folks and by the way this is the story maps as you can see so i'm going to put this in the in the chat box so that people can access it later one of the things that i wanted to mention here is that we put in more content in this story map than we're going to be able to cover in the next 43 minutes okay it is designed that way so that you can actually dig deeper i'm going to touch on some highlights of this content but again there's more content that you can actually use in the future after the workshop ends so how can i find the population and demographics spatial and attribute data how can i use it inside arcgis pro arcgis online and other sre tools and what kinds of investigations can i foster using these amazing data sets and tools and then okay i want to dig deeper where do i go to learn more those are those are our four goals our noble goals that we'll set out now here's a couple of reasons why i i love teaching with population data just to sort of set the stage here we talked about this a bit ago um in the preliminary comments leading up to our workshop but it's relevant to 21st century issues right so many things in our world have to do with human imprint on the landscape and we can analyze that imprint and that impact how in the environment impacts people how people impact the environment both ways human environment interaction with these data sets so it's at the intersection of humans and environment it all fosters all the things that you and i love about teaching with geospatial technologies critical thinking spatial thinking problem solving geoliteracy and it's accessible you've got a variety of tools as you can see there that you can use that access demographic data and indeed business analyst web for example actually has the data bundled up inside the tool inside the tool so you don't actually have to go searching out outside the tool to find it we'll talk more about that in a bit with arcgis pro sure it's an install but it's connected to the web ideally you'd actually be connected to your arcgis online account when you're using pro why would you use pro instead of arcgis online and most of these other things that are listed here well to dig deeper to do more rigorous analysis we'll talk more about that too but i also love this part allows and encourages what if we look at this variable instead of that variable what if we looked at this region of the world instead of that region of the world so the what if questions there are admittedly other tools that you can use in instruction and in research that allows you to do that but i think geospatial technology especially enabled by these servers portals arcgis hubs open data portals etc that allow us to access data at our fingertips it allows us to ask those what-if questions and that's what that's what inquiry is all about and most importantly it fosters your students that graduate and become change agents and indeed i would argue that your students are already change agents we've seen a lot of evidence of that yesterday while they're still students even in primary and secondary school and even in technical tribal community colleges and universities while they're still students they are changed they can be and they are change agents in their own on their own campus and in their community but much more so beyond as they graduate and go out into the work force and become the change agents in government industry academia etc and i would just argue also that when we're teaching with geospatial technology we're teaching these three legs of this geoliteracy stool if you will content knowledge in our case population demographics characteristics human behavior skills presenting communicating spatial analysis spatial statistics et cetera and finally the geographic perspective which i think is important even if you're teaching business or history or government studies or data science or health you're teaching with the geographic perspective here are some selected tools at the bottom of this screen that you can see here herb arcgis urban arcgis insights business analyst web and arcgis online they're all sas based they're all software as a service running in the cloud nothing to install arcgis pro with the r bridge which is i i think extremely suitable for population studies is again something that you probably already have at your fingertips on your campus and if not our team can help you get there but your brain is the most important thing more about that in a moment this is all part of the arcgis system that's what's nice about these tools is they're all connected actually they're not just some you know tool that you know brian or joseph or laura invented and it's in their garage somewhere on some little server it's actually connected to the wider arcgis system which gives you a lot of power because you can connect these tools together but most importantly i love this photo i took this at an actual high school in colorado where i was running a geotech club after school uh it is now a door stop but as you can see it is an old mac computer that was once part of someone's valued part of their it uh stack now it's a door stop so the point is here don't get too attached to the tools the tools will evolve the tools will change this tool is the most important tool right it's not can i make a bivariate map is what do i want to find out so you're nurturing this whole spatially enabled thinking brain of yours and your students that to me is the most important thing and on a related note laura brian and i and others on our team get people saying hey i put my data on my map great we'll say and we always want to encourage the and and that is what does it help you do now that you understand this spatial relationship perhaps and now that you've got your data on the map what does that lead you to do in terms of further analysis action further questions etc now here are some selected topics that we're going to dig into today as you can see right here all having to do with population and i'm going to frame it in basically 11 different activities we're not going to be able to go into depth in all of 11 activities but you've got in the chat box there the story map that actually has links to all of these activities first of all when i was at all those federal agencies in my past career usgs noaa census bureau i always dreamed of i know it sounds a little bit geeky and nerdy but a sort of a one stop we had geospatial one stop we have data.gov and they're all you know noble efforts and they still exist but having the living atlas that's enabled and part of this arcgis system i think is a huge leap forward because you've got the ability to now go and find and be critically of evaluating the data that you find right not just accept it just because it's online or just because it's a map but actually being critical of it more about that moment but then being able to ingest that into these tools that we talked about earlier so the living atlas of the world is a great starting point for demographic data so one of the things that's in there is the popular demographics for the usa layer that comes from the american community survey and as we speak the 2020 decennial census data is being populated more about that in a moment as well but i would start with the living atlas of the world if you're searching for demographic data the second one i wanted to go into with you all is these indicators of the planet this is part of arcgis online living atlas of the world apps the apps include the wayback imagery which we'll talk about today it includes the water balance app and a small set but incredibly useful apps this one i love using as an intro to get students thinking about issues on our planet week to week so you know first thing monday morning in a class show this have the students dig into these little tiles which is actually as you can see in the upper left using the experience builder which is another tool that's very intriguing but digging into some of the population related issues and many of them have to do with population right the human interaction with the environment for wildfires how much do humans exacerbate the wildfire naturally occurring wildfire situation etc so in each one of these tiles you can go into the living atlas of the world you've got a live interactive web web map or more and you've got the data at your fingertips so i would highly encourage you to use these these extremely some of them are pretty grim understandably these are serious problems but i i really think this is a good thing to show uh as an icebreaker to get students thinking spatially and about 21st century issues i could go on but i won't okay let's let's use number three now investigate incoming and outgoing migration with a series of um and also demographic information with a series of 3d globes sometimes that 3d effect is very engaging very intriguing and we have the 3d scene viewer for example in arcgis online that allows you and your students to actually dig into this you can build a 3d scene you can also use 3d scenes that are already built which i will show right now one of them is this one so here is the incoming and outgoing migration according to the un department of economic and social affairs right it's really important to analyze and to study where the data comes from how often is it updated who created it how often is it curated uh the scale was created at and so on and so forth but here you've got the ability in a 2d mode and also in a 3d mode to look at as you can see along the bottom here this is a this is a web mapping application built on population data from the u.n 1990 2000 2010 and you can see how things change not only the raw numbers but the thickness of the line and the way that this is cartographically represented i think is really intriguing with the dark gray base map that probably many of you are familiar with and these orange lines showing the strength of incoming and outgoing migration for all of the countries in that particular data set so why is this so much uh why is there so i taught in the uae taught some gis there for about three weeks and it was fascinating to see how many people as you probably well know are from another country right very few natives um in in gis and education right there and in education in general most of them have have moved there from from elsewhere so how does that compare with another place around the world how do we know that for example australia you got 1990 in let's look at inbound so you can see 1990 2000 let's pan over to here so we can see that wow there's a little bit more as time goes on from southeast asia and south asia moving to australia and sometimes the 2d mode is just as effective or even more so than the 3d mode so you've got this amazing data at your fingertips again be critical of the source but really quite fascinating and then of course we don't just show these tools it's what's where why is it there and why should we care why do we care if migration changes around the world and how does somalia compare to australia why are there so few moving to somalia and so many moving away and how bad would it have to be in your country challenge challenge wise for you to actually move away do you have the means to move away so getting students to think about the world and you know it's it's not so simple as it seems if if conditions are are are challenging in a country it's not that everybody can leave or should leave or wants to leave so all kinds of issues in discussion that you can have with this particular part of the cool maps gallery cool maps what's what's not what's not to love about that and there are others in the cool maps gallery that you might want to check out but that's my favorite one in terms of demographics there's also a couple of 3d globes that uh are my favorites from one of our developers at esri zurich and one of them that she's developed is this one and i've got a link in there in the story map but i like the fact that it's it's a good illustration for what gis is so in other words every one of these these extruded polygons has a value and it's not just a graphic floating around in cyberspace right it has it has a values you can see in the lower left as i pan around these and also change over space and time so you've got 2000 2005 and you can see the urban areas the the densely populated areas getting larger as i pan from 2000 to 2020 again according to a certain data set but looking at for example you know why why there's a settlement of australia the way it is why are most people living on the on the east coast fascinating to be able to do this and the the the density of these polygons compared to these polygons i mean it's like night and day okay so the point is these tools can be a five minute lesson they can be a deeper dive your choice you want to use it in a way that's most appropriate to your curriculum so i've got other ones in there there's one that's filterable so you can you can filter it and only show the more densely populated in this case uh 10 110 by 10 110 kilometer cells grid cells okay hope this is intriguing for you folks i just love this there's so many ways to get into this and depending on your your the age of your students the the experience they've had with gis uh the background that they've had et etc there could be lots of different pathways here there's no one way to do to do this and that's why i'm presenting some some key resources here for you one of the things that i like to to incorporate with population study is studies is imagery and some of you know about the the way back imagery it allows you through literally uh terabyte loads of high resolution imagery to compare okay not back to the landsat era 1970s but over the last seven years or so at high resolution changes over space and time so here with the wayback imagery if i go ahead in the upper left here and click the swipe tool i've got okay the bells ringing in five minutes or my students are arriving in five minutes and i've got to have something ready to go well i've got the textbook example of urban sprawl suburban southwest las vegas nevada so i look at this and say okay this there's been a lot of changes just between 2014 on the right and 2022 2021 on the left then if i change the scale and i pan a little bit over to lake mead for example which probably most of you know that it's a it's actually a reservoir and i look at and i look at this swipe tool and i say okay what's wrong with this picture the lake level has drastically declined in just seven years due to ongoing drought in the southwest okay and if major urban areas such as las vegas are getting their water supply from such surface sources there's not enough groundwater to sustain that population what's wrong with this picture what should we do about it why is this an issue so in in one tool you've got the ability to teach about deforestation you can look at reforestation you can look at glacial retreat you can coastal erosion agricultural expansion in saudi arabia or in central plains of the u.s lots of different issues construction of reservoirs at your fingertips and if you want to dig deeper you can sign in to your arcgis online account and bring these layers into arcgis online so then you could add things like population density land use zoning and so on river systems okay so that is the way back imagery there's a couple of others here that i don't have time in the workshop to dig into but the landsat lens kind of gives you the same tools at your fingertips but with landsat data and as you probably are aware landsat data goes even further back in time so we're talking the 1970s we were talking the bee gees that was a band okay anyway the point is you've got 50 years of landsat data actually yeah about 50 years worth of landsat data just about in a couple years it'll be 50 years but the point is you've got that data at lower resolution but still global in coverage and farther back in time nice okay lastly well second last the topo map explorer now this is un unlike the way back imagery in the landsat lens viewer the topo map explorer is usgs so it's just usa but you've got in that case historical usgs topol maps going back to the 1930s at your fingertips now many of you probably have a whole stack of usgs maps i've got one of this particular area behind me here in western colorado but okay those are still good to have around but you've got you don't have to have a big you know pile of these in your house anymore don't get rid of those but this tool right here allows you to add historical topo maps for again it's just usa in this case but going back in time and using using tools to make them transparent and just like the wayback imagery you can then bring them into arcgis online for further analysis with other layers on top such as eco regions or biomes or river systems fascinating to be able to do that so you've got a almost 100 years change over space and time and tie it to population change why is this community my community denver colorado fast growing rapidly urbanizing why is that different from i look at saint francis kansas and northwest kansas why is saint francis pretty much looking the same now as it did in 1930 why the wise of where okay and then finally the landsat explorer app is um i think fascinating so here you've got swipe capabilities you've got multi-band capabilities unlike the landsat lens in the explorer one you can look at near infrared for example look at vegetation health and so on lots of other things there's all kinds of fascinating maps i'm going to dive out outside of the esri ecosystem here for just one one moment but even static maps have their use i contend in education so for example this one which is a state my state by state migration map from new york times using some of the same data that we're talking about but being able to if we drill down into here looking at each state in the u.s and how many people in 2010 lived there that also lived there in 2000 now we'll be updating this in in a year i'm sure they will be but the point is you could see pennsylvania 74 of the people lived there in 2010 and that that were that were actually living there in 2000 as well and you can see other states lower like nevada right more people and here in colorado migrating to it so you've got a lower percentage of people that were there 10 years ago fascinating to be able to do this and these little cells around each state is indicating how many people have moved there from other places i just love this stuff i wish i could get excited about it okay let's now we're starting to get into the real heart of the matter here with some some deeper dives examining world population and demographics by country again how do i get that data a lot of it comes from the living atlas of the world from various sources un department of economic and social affairs various statistical agencies around the country we actually have at esri a set of demographic staff we have demographers some of you know linda peters for example and other really brilliant smart people like her anyway the point is they were hired in part because of their deep experience with working with different countries statistical data and bringing it into this platform and i just absolutely love looking at these population estimates global population and maternal health indicators gdp some of which comes from the world bank some of it comes from other sources but there if it's in the living atlas it's got metadata in it okay and it helps you to evaluate whether or not that data is suitable for your course and i also would encourage you to have the students examine that that metadata because that'll cultivate them doing that as they journey forward in not just in gis but in all areas where they're looking at data right they're just going to be looking at data no matter what profession they go into and no matter what field they go into so getting them into the habit of really questioning where did the data come from i know it's intriguing looking and it's got some nice symbology but can i trust it and is it suitable for my needs absolutely so more about that in a moment as well but let's just take a look at one of these layers in here i'm going to go ahead and take a look at this one country population estimates and again i've got the ability to open this up in arcgis pro in this case we're going to just open it up in arcgis online when do you use pro versus arcgis online well you've got choices even in arcgis online and my colleague kylie donia and i are teaching a workshop in the new map viewer versus the map viewer classic here at in about three hours but you've got this capability as well in in these data feature services is a feature layer you can open it in arcgis pro right from here i'm going to open it up in the new map viewer in arcgis online right now and here i've got well okay i just i just passed it by but that metadata screen is worth spending a little bit of time on you don't have to spend a whole class period on it but being able to do this and here we've got okay it's a little bit old but i've got just as an example these country population estimates and i can go to uh these layers and see oh gosh i can change the symbology i can look around i can sign in and then being able to open up the table add additional layers to it and so on i love these new pop-ups in the new map viewer by the way you get a lot more rich information behind these some of which are time enabled which really fascinating to me so i highly recommend tapping into i'm going to close a couple tabs just to maintain sanity and to save on bandwidth okay one of the things that you probably do as well but i would just highly encourage you to do if you if you're not is to follow certain groups certain organizations certain people uh people cartography you know for me it's you know bern sakalski john nelson alien buckley and others um inside and outside esri um but organizations one of the organizations that i i think is worth actually following and checking up on what they're doing is season the center for earth science information at columbia university they've been long-time friends and colleagues of ours and one of the tools that they've built in conjunction with some of the tools that we were i was just showing earlier is this cdac population estimator one of the fascinating things about population studies as as i think many of you know is the ability to incorporate population pyramids it's it's one of those long-standing uh fascinating things to be able to do and if i for example click on a on a point on the map i'm going to be able to drill down and get some information about that point so for example oh i can buffer with this tool look it's based on some of the esri technology but it's it's a season enhanced from columbia university data set so i'm going to draw a shape in a certain part of the world and it's going to return this is this is i think the the harbinger of the future in fact the future is now with geospatial technology where you you're querying a data set and you're going to get information back from it sometimes in real time wildfires stream flow traffic sometimes in near real time and sometimes it's a static data set but nevertheless could be a very intriguing tool so for example here i've got okay population trends for this part of the world that i've banded an area around and then touching on what i was mentioning a moment ago you've got the population pyramid for that area that it's actually constructing here on the fly which is why it's taking a few moments but being able to look at okay japan's population pyramid right like this where you've got a lot of people in the senior years and relatively the same amount over down here with the young folks as opposed to ghana or another uh part of the world that's changing fat quickly and they've got a lot of kids so the the base of the population pyramid is like this we'll come back to that in a moment as it generates but fascinating to be able to do that ah here we go but look at this and then you've got change over time so some of these tools actually let you look at the 2000 2010 to 2019 2020 ish population pyramid but being able to do that and compare that now to italy or compare that now to japan or canada a or usa et cetera fascinating to be able to do that and some of these tools will let you export the data into a csv that you can then bring into arcgis online right this is an application so you can't you can't like put this map into arcgis online it's built on top of some of that s3 in infrastructure but many of the tools will let you export and dig deeper okay now let's get into some smaller geographic units we've done some a couple of global studies and you can you can use those links and dig deeper but some of you know that the american community survey has been around for a while introduced about 21 years ago for detailed information that used to be on this long form some people used to get this short form some people used to get the long form that had more detailed data about you know how do you commute to work and so on and so forth and also as i mentioned we have a team of demographers who can create detailed data on a variety of variables we provide projections as well so many of the tools that you'll see you'll see 2022 2025 2027 projections for small geographic areas where does all that come from and can i trust it there are there's a site that you can go to to look at some external evaluations if you really want to go there of our estimates and since that since these estimates for behavior and demographics are used by businesses to plan very carefully plan what their where their locations should be what their uh sales projections and growth strategy should be that's all taken very seriously and so fortunately the estimates are very they stand up very well against other estimates so there's independent studies that have shown that these these estimates are actually quite good quite rigorous but the living atlas of the world you can access that through all esri products that i've got listed here there's a guide for working with acs data that is actually in the form of a story map which i which i have a link to here and then let's take a look at this as we as we navigate toward these smaller geographic areas one of them is this again one of those approachable tools that you can use in the first five minutes of class or first 15 minutes of class where you've got okay let's talk about the history of reapportionment there's some data here some videos but i really like this one right here so you go back to this created from the census bureau and looking at okay the change in seats and that relates of course to changes in population so you've got okay who gained and who lost for these years let's look at the you know 1940s so this would be from the 30s wow fascinating to be able to do this so some of these great planes states lost some of them continue to lose in terms of numbers of representatives because of population change and then of course as the 20th century came to a close you see california florida and texas gaining and let's take a look at 2020. so being able to tie this to okay the reason why this changes is because population changes so i think that's a good introductory tool to use that the state counts for reapportionment is it is now in the living atlas of the world that just came out about a month ago so this is kind of new data here state apportionment from the 2020 decennial came out about a month ago current acs data popular demographics is a layer that uses this current acs data and let's dig into that right now i've got the data inside arcgis online i've already just bloated it up from our living atlas of the world the acs popular demographics layer and okay i've got it in arcgis online and that means i can i can change style right i can i can again we're going to teach a workshop on the new map viewer here so if this looks a little bit unfamiliar it's basically all you that you had in the classic map viewer and and then some you've got additional capabilities i'm going to search on median i love looking at median age because it sparks so much conversation about what influences the median age economics retirements movement internal external migration etc i'm going to add median age there and i'm going to change the style so that i'm going to look at counts and amounts color i'm just going to classify the data and i'm going to make it how about i'm going to leave it at natural breaks but let's get a five category map okay now i'm gonna i'm going to make sure that i'm actually doing that on county so let's do the same thing median age i was doing it on state and i want to do it on county so okay counts and amounts color great and classified data that's nice okay let's get five classes done and i'm okay with that color ramp okay super let's let's pop up a legend there so now i've got this pattern of median age with the popular demographics layer that comes from the american community survey for different years i'm looking at 2018 right now but being able to do this and looking at these great plains counties being older than metro area counties in in much of the country and how can i see through there well it's the standard okay styles and i'm going to go down to properties here and i'm going to say you know i really want this to be a little bit transparent so i can see okay there's kansas city there's there's dallas etc denver all being a little bit younger for various reasons that we can discuss in class so i've got this inside arcgis online part of the living atlas world i can bring it into pro for further analysis let me just have a instructional moment with you all i have a lesson you probably have a lesson where the students go out to census.gov and they grab the tiger line files for counties zip codes census tracts block groups and they then they go out and grab the demographic data and then they join those things and about two hours later they can start doing analysis and mapping things and understanding patterns i would just argue in this case this is one of those perfect examples of do you really need to have the students do that anymore certainly joining is a valid and an important tool in geospatial analysis right folks nothing against that you can join though in fact laura and i wrote this course where you can actually go out to the living atlas of the world and you do an attribute join in a spatial join to the living atlas data so you actually do it inside arcgis online so it accomplishes the mission of understanding the power that joins give you but it doesn't go through that long workflow that we've all kind of gone through in the past and it's hard to give up those those lessons it really is but i just would just encourage you to think about this is a perfect example of maybe that's time that you save and having the students go through that long process that they had to go through in the past because that's the only way they could get the data in the past is go to census.gov and download all this stuff that you're you're they're freed to do other things that you want them to do that you perhaps in the past haven't had time to do you've got you've got two extra hours at least uh in your course or in your workshop so this is absolutely fascinating to be able to do this and just take a look at these um this layer here if i go to uh the county layer here and i'm going to show the table in just this one layer alone and this is just county level from the american community survey i've got at least 100 variables not that more is always better but i'm just pointing it out because there is truly a wealth i wish i could get excited about this truly folks at your fingertips and then the challenge as instructors right is okay what meets my educational goal for this lesson for this course what do i want the students to go into what what variables should they analyze or do i leave it a little bit open okay let's look at some trends a and b what what variables influence those trends what do you predict it's going to look like in the future for median age or anything else and why do we care about median age in the first place well put it in a scenario i'm going to plan a service in on the high great plains of the usa and i have x budget and i have the x staff and i have y deadline what five counties am i going to target that have the oldest median age so i can target and address the needs of maybe a certain senior population fascinating yeah laura's got the the story map link in there thanks okay time doesn't permit me to go into pro right now however this is just an example of oh my gosh this is even more exciting than what we've just done so far but as you probably are aware in pro you've got a lot of other capabilities at your fingertips bivariate mapping which you can do a little bit in arcgis online if you set up a an expression in arcade you can accomplish some of the same things but being able to do this kind of thing with this three by three little grid as you can see on the legend on the left side so it's it's i'm looking at household size and household income is there any relationship between the two i just i just think that these capabilities allow for lots of deep and even intermediate dives and even in a introductory geo-visualization cartography gis data analytics course having this and okay i'm going to map two fields you know we're not talking about learning this for three hours and then figuring out how to do it it's fairly straightforward and there's lots of help and tutorials to help you along the way as well as actual real people so that is a little bit of a couple of screenshots that i made with pro urban observatory let's take a look at this because we've been looking at areas and i think it's also yes absolutely um you've got some wildlife data um uh if if that's what you're asking um species counts mm-hmm absolutely okay i'm gonna start comparing this this is a cities focused activity and data set and i think it's often times where you might start because oftentimes students say okay population we're going to be looking at cities okay fair enough now jack benjamin and richard salwerman worked on this a couple years ago richard salwarman you may you may know is the founder of the ted talks and so if i go to senior population i've got about 60 variables on the left side urban observatory and i've got about a hundred cities across the horizontal axis if you will and so i can say you know what i really want to look at tokyo okay i've got that already in the third panel what about uh akra what if i looked at accra i'm going to go to a here and i'm going to look at akra in ghana i want it in panel number two okay my hypothesis based on the population pyramids that we were looking at about 10 minutes ago is that akra has a very young population so the senior population at roughly the same scale in each one of these panels is going to be much less than tokyo and indeed it is you can see the relationship between these two okay so this could be a nice supplement to your area or other tool examination urban observatory about 60 variables about 100 cities land use temperature current traffic lots of things you can explore here fascinating and it's it's done with this interactive technology where you can of course you can set this up as an app on your own you can have a three panel app it's one of the apps that you can build inside arcgis online so that's what what was done here so i really love that what about this one what city is this here's a little quiz for you let me just make sure you folks are on your toes here in the last uh we've got six about five minutes left what is this city um i see a a spire there i can see some pretty cool vegetation i'm up on a on a promontory so it's not a flat city hmm keep thinking keep thinking you folks are on the right path you're on the right ocean all right we better move on keep thinking on the point that i raised earlier auckland yes exactly right jess i was there two years ago good on you where will you find the data how do you know if it's any good and what about societal issues i have a book in esri press that i co-wrote with jill clark and the book is all about i know it sounds really boring but public domain spatial data but really it's fascinating because it gets into the key issues about analyzing data and assessing data but inside there we have short digestible essays for example this one on be critical of and aware of default settings in gis software that actually john nelson at esri helped me with fake satellite imagery what what what's not intriguing about that if you introduce that to your students why would anyone do that be critical of the imagery as well as the as the vector data so spatial reserves is where to find data how do i know if it's any good and how do i um talk my students about about location privacy copyright and all those societal issues but that is oftentimes where i send people if they say where do i find data on what you know so i've got top 10 satellite image top 10 landsat sites the top 10 arcgis hubs for for data utility admittedly some of it's subjective based on my own uh areas of interest but i hope that's useful also when we think about other issues that we could wrap inside population in our remaining minutes policy maps in policy maps which i have an essay on in the esri community zone our higher education our education blog is you you generate quickly five maps of your own choice you can save those you can share those but it is about all kinds of social and racial uh economic and other variables that you can start analyzing and drill down using some of the census data that we're talking about today so policy maps is a very accessible and interesting and intriguing way of getting your students to think spatially and using geospatial analysis and i even say this to you're teaching economics you're teaching a non-gis course some of these tools that we're talking about today are useful for that for for those courses others of these that we talked about are actually quite suitable for gi science gis data science courses there is also on a related note a hub an arcgis hub on gis for racial equity that again uses a lot of the data sets that we've talked about here there's no shortage of story maps for population studies one of my favorites is the uh the 7 billion story map it's it's 10 years old now so where are we now compared to 7 billion are we 7.4 or 7.5 but when the 7 billion mark came there was an intriguing story map that came out and it's been updated since then population change uh is a another good story map that i find useful and again related to changes in population and related changes in um the social and economic uh awareness and issues confronting societies around the world there are some intriguing story maps one on charlotte's inequality over time charlotte north carolina the life of dolores huerta about the labor movement from the 1930s to really present time um good good resources there fascinating and i think one of the one of the key messages here is that these tools can be consumed right story maps for example dashboards cetera and you have the capability at your own fingertips to create your own and so your students it's not just consume things that others have created but create your own on issues on variables on places neighborhoods etc that you care about that your students care about that's what's powerful about all this all right i've really literally run out of time here but places and regions so population versus ecoregions uh related to covid which which what are what are the trends lastly i promise to end with this i love these out in in migration two counties and two states so our colleague jennifer bell actually created these she's on the story maps team now and incoming and outgoing for states and for counties and the symbology used in here is just absolutely fascinating with the dark background uh but let's just take a look at um you know i've got a colleague in idaho that's actually on the webinar right now so if we open this up in the map viewer um being able to look at incoming and outgoing remember we looked at that for countries with that 3d globe part of the cool maps gallery about a half an hour ago well this lets you do that by state and county for count not every single county there's about 50 counties but every state in the u.s and looking at incoming and outgoing migration and of course now that we're coming to the end of the workshop uh we're having some bandwidth issues so we might come back to that but you can see a little a little thumbnail there it it almost looks like um to me like electromagnetic you know sparks uh fascinating there's some population data tied to lessons that we can go into for example on the dust bowl and i've got a little about about uh spatial analysis and dashboards here at the end to learn more uh no shortage there take a look at this story map i will bill i don't i don't take down any of my story maps i've got i've got story maps from you know for 11 years out there now and i always think you know just like you probably as educators i'll probably use pieces of that someday i really don't want to delete them okay occasionally i have something that's incredibly dated that is no longer really relevant or it's using some old old old tech technology um that doesn't work very well i've got a broken link so i do i i i correct myself i i do take that down but anyway be curious model yes i'm gonna have to cut you off there i know sadly okay so here's the goal and if brian laura or i can be of assistance to you in the future that's what we're here for and we're all about building a more sustainable healthier happier future [Music] thanks folks for being here much appreciated you

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Length: 47min 42sec (2862 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 09 2021