Uploading Excel data

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08-04-2019 10:49 AM
James_LYNCH
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I have been trying to upload my excel .cvs data file to arcmap, but can not get the data to show for spatial and statistical analysis. What can I do?

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DanPatterson_Retired
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You may have some issues since your field names contain unsavory characters and some of your fields might be interpreted as 'math' ie...

WBID,Site Code,Date,Waterbody  Name,Latitude,Longitude,Elevation (feet),"Hardness (mg/l) (Ca, Mg)",Total Unfiltered Ca (ppm) ,Total Mg (ppm),Dissolved Pb (ppm),Dissolved Zn (ppm)
1934,1934/6.1,3/25/2009,Shoal Cr.,37.82020200,-91.13719500,895.67,171,34.6,20.5,0.000250,0.002090

field names... remove spaces 

Hardness_CaMg

Total_Ca

Total_Mg

Diss_Pb

Diss_Zn

perhaps.

1934/6.1 hmmm math? probably not, if you could fix to 1934_6_1 it would be guaranteed to be a string

Latitude and Longitude are good? IF there are not blank spaces in that column AND Longitude is specified as X and Latitude as Y when you make the event layer.

In short, I would fix in Excel, ensure that you have no blank cells in any column by assigning an appropriate null value and clean up the field names

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