Latest Contributions by BrooksBreece

Good evening, During the Thursday morning session at the Esri UC entitled "Geostatistics in Practice: Learning Kriging Through Examples" (https://userconference2017.schedule.esri.com/schedule/1463996112), the presenters mentioned that they would post a "cheat sheet" for the assumptions to check and metrics to monitor when stepping through the geostatistical analyst wizard.  Where will those be posted? Have a nice day. ... View more

Good morning, I am looking for examples of SQL expressions to use in Make Query Layer that have WHERE statements that include conditions based on attribute values and geometries.  The SDE from which I am pulling is an Oracle database. Question 2: Who in a ModelBuilder tool or script tool asked an user to supply a geometry that is then used in a Query Layer SQL statement? Thank you for your help. ... View more

A New Mantra for Decision-Making: #UseAllTheData by Jon Breece April 18, 2017 “You can never have too much reconnaissance. Use every means available before, during, and after battle. Reports must be facts, not opinions; negative as well as positive.”—General George S. Patton, Letter of Instruction, March 6, 1944 1 Like Patton and battlefield commanders of yesteryear, today’s government, military, business, and nonprofit leaders seek to collect, consider, and act on data and derived analysis to reach informed decisions and clear-eyed forecasts. Leaders want an objective, deep understanding of their “battlespace.” The data landscape today, however, is exponentially richer than in decades past—so rich we use the term big data to describe it. The growth in deployment of data-producing sensors on the Internet of Things, the exposure of government and commercially created data, and the explosion in volunteered information via social media and other channels have left organizations awash in varied, voluminous, and high-velocity data. Weather, sentiment, socioeconomic, cadastral, industrial, and other data all may be at the fingertips of organizations. ... For more: https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/publications/wherenext/new-mantra-decision-making-useallthedata/ ... View more

arcgisbinding: Testing the new ArcGIS interface for the R language  Installation and coding videos ... View more

Good evening, I get the following warning when trying to install arcgisbinding: > install.packages("arcgisbinding") Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Jon/Documents/R/win-library/3.3’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) Warning in install.packages : package ‘arcgisbinding’ is not available (for R version 3.3.2) Should I switch to an older version of R? ... View more