What's new in Learn ArcGIS October 2020
New Learn Paths
A Learn Path is sequenced set of resources for learning about a particular topic. Here's a roundup of new paths in the Learn ArcGIS Gallery that have appeared in the last month.
Exploring Location Analytics in Business Education
Explore why and how to use Location Analytics in Business Education with this set of readings, case studies, and hands-on activities.
GIS for computer science CTE programs (Python)
See the role of GIS in computer science CTE. Use the spatial lens of GIS to help students in the career cluster for information technology understand data processing, scripting, and automation. Explore GIS through Python and Jupyter Notebooks.
New Learn Lessons
A Learn Lesson is a step-by-step tutorial that uses a real-world scenario to introduce key ArcGIS tools and workflows. Here's a roundup of new lessons in the Learn ArcGIS Gallery that have appeared in the last month.
Visualize global COVID-19 trends in ArcGIS Insights (ArcGIS Insights)
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted the world at an unprecedented scale. Combatting the pandemic will require worldwide data collection and sharing. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) provides the latest available public data on COVID-19, which can be used to gain critical insights about the disease's spatial and temporal spread.
In this lesson, you'll create an overview of global COVID-19 cases in ArcGIS Insights. You'll map data from the ECDC and create charts to show how cases are changing over time. Your result will be a shareable workbook that displays and describes the pandemic from multiple angles and makes key information understandable and accessible.
Visualize social distancing across California (ArcGIS Pro)
Nothing has changed our collective spatial behavior quite like the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Esri partner SafeGraph allowed ArcGIS users to track changes in social distancing behavior with timely statistics. SafeGraph creates this data from mobile apps that collect location data, and they’ve developed algorithms to quantify behavior patterns into simple, understandable metrics. In this exercise, you’ll explore a prepared set of block group-level SafeGraph social distancing metrics from May 1, 2020, to June 14, 2020, with charts and animations. You’ll also use space-time pattern mining tools to assess patterns and visualize the data as a multidimensional voxel layer.
Site a new hospital (ArcGIS Online)
The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors seeks a location for a second hospital in the county. The site must meet the following criteria:
- Be within two miles of urban areas.
- Be more than a 20-minute car ride from the current main hospital.
- Be within one mile of main roads.
In this lesson, you'll use proximity tools to create data layers to address these criteria. Then, you'll use data management tools to combine the layers to find possible locations.