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Python for ArcGIS Pro

By : Silas Toms, Bill Parker
Book Image

Python for ArcGIS Pro

By: Silas Toms, Bill Parker

Overview of this book

Integrating Python into your day-to-day ArcGIS work is highly recommended when dealing with large amounts of geospatial data. Python for ArcGIS Pro aims to help you get your work done faster, with greater repeatability and higher confidence in your results. Starting from programming basics and building in complexity, two experienced ArcGIS professionals-turned-Python programmers teach you how to incorporate scripting at each step: automating the production of maps for print, managing data between ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, creating custom script tools for sharing, and then running data analysis and visualization on top of the ArcGIS geospatial library, all using Python. You’ll use ArcGIS Pro Notebooks to explore and analyze geospatial data, and write data engineering scripts to manage ongoing data processing and data transfers. This exercise-based book also includes three rich real-world case studies, giving you an opportunity to apply and extend the concepts you studied earlier. Irrespective of your expertise level with Esri software or the Python language, you’ll benefit from this book’s hands-on approach, which takes you through the major uses of Python for ArcGIS Pro to boost your ArcGIS productivity.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part I: Introduction to Python Modules for ArcGIS Pro
5
Part II: Applying Python Modules to Common GIS Tasks
10
Part III: Geospatial Data Analysis
14
Part IV: Case Studies
18
Other Books You May Enjoy
19
Index

Case study introduction

In this case study, you will use ArcPy to create a custom map series displaying Census Block Group data along AC Transit Transbay bus routes.

In the summer of 2020, due to COVID-19, many Transbay bus routes were suspended, leaving limited service from Alameda and Contra Costa County to San Francisco. You are working with a group on a preliminary Environmental Justice study to see if one of the lines that was suspended had a disproportionate impact on minority communities. You have been asked to produce a series of maps that highlight the block groups along the route of one bus line that have a higher-percentage minority population than that of block groups along the routes that were not suspended.

In addition to highlighting those block groups, the population of each race group in the selected block group needs to be displayed as a dot density map and a table included on the figure that contains the percentage of each race group.

This requires...