Latest Contributions by BryanChastain2

Right now if you want to update data pulled from Sharepoint in your Insights Workbook, you have to manually re-add the data, use Update to replace the old entity and then remove that old entity. This is very cumbersome and makes automating data refreshes impossible. Can we get the single-click Update arrows button to work for Sharepoint data the same way it does for Hosted Feature Layers? ... View more

It would be very handy to be able to customize dynamic symbology using Arcade. It's what it's built for, so it would seem to be a good fit here. Scott Sandusky‌ ... View more

Currently Predefined Filters can only be viewed as a List Box. This gets very cumbersome if you have a filter with many values or a sheet with many filters on it. It would be much nicer if you could reconfigure Predefined Filters to allow the user to change the view to a dropdown/combo box. Scott Sandusky‌ ... View more

I have several datasets that are too large to efficiently view using Feature Services, but perform very well as Dynamic Map Services. I would love to be able to view these services in Insights. ... View more

The new ability to cross-filter across cards is great. However, it would be nice to control which filters do get transmitted in the cross-filter. For example, imagine I have two cards A & B. I would like for any interactive selections made by the user on Card A to be transmitted via cross-filter to Card B. That works as expected, but what if I had some background filters set up on Card A that I did not want transmitted? There is no way to say "Only transmit the interactive selection, not background filters" in Insights. This type of operation is possible in other dataviz software, such as Triggers in Tableau or Set Expressions in Qlik. ... View more

Currently you cannot modify legend text in Insights. For example, if you had a choropleth map with 3 classes that you intend to represent High, Medium and Low, the legend would only ever show the numerical breakpoints. There is no way to change it to more descriptive text of the classes. Also, more control over colors across the platform is needed. With quantitative data, you can select a color ramp, which is nice, but you can't reverse it or create a custom color ramp. With categorical data, you cannot select the colors at all! You are just stuck using the random color defaults. ... View more

The ability to add confidence intervals to line charts is necessary to convey the degree of uncertainty in analysis. Ideally, Insights would allow for both auto-generated confidence intervals (e.g. a checkbox to turn on 95% CIs) or user-defined confidence intervals (e.g. user selects two fields corresponding to pre-calculated upper and lower CIs). ... View more

With Esri's recent roll-out of Insights to ArcGIS Online, everyone now has access to native-spatial data viz tools. With a few clicks of a mouse, anyone can create create impressive-looking dashboards that allow for intuitive maps and charts that interact with one another. However, the current documentation is somewhat thin and no user support community has yet had time to coalesce - finding help while developing with these new tools can be challenging. This talk will take an honest look at the pros and cons of Insights and provide some best practices for how to integrate spatial and non-spatial data to create compelling visualizations. Additionally, Insights will be compared and contrasted with other industry-leading data visualization software, such as Tableau and Qlik, and libraries, such as D3, to help developers determine which approach works better in different situations. ... View more