Tech Skills & Beyond ‐ Analytics Group Weekly Meeting
We will broaden our expertise in the technology and skills necessary to more efficiently and effectively wield data and tools in support of the Wasatch Front Regional Council mission & BEYOND!!!
- Passion Points (5-10 minutes) - open forum for quick informal discussion of any exciting new knowledge nuggets from the past week
- Topic Brainstorming and Prioritization (5 minutes)
- Discussion (20-30 minutes) - pre-assigned to individual attendee
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Sarah: What’s new in Arcgis Pro 3.2
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Bill: Multiple Returns!
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Chris: Package versions and require!
Accordion-style scheduling will expand or contract timing and duration of topic discussion based on input from meeting attendees. If you are not an Analytics Group member and would like to receive notification of the scheduling of a specific topic, please indicate by typing your initials following the topic title.
| Topic | Presenter | Date/Condition |
|---|---|---|
| ESRI Dev Summit Follow-up | Josh | Mar 26, 2024 |
| Chad | ||
| ChatGPT v4 vs v3.5 video | Bill | |
| Arcpy to Geopandas Review | Chris & Chad | after CW review |
| ArcGIS Easter Eggs | Sarah | |
| All about the base-ics of Volume and Congestion Forecasting | Bill | |
| Discrete Math | Bert | |
| Discrete Choice Model Estimation Overview | Andy | |
| Cube 2023 (CubePy, Geodatabases, Format Conversion) | Chad | |
| Big Query to JSON google script | Bill |
- Pivot Tables—Excel, R, Python
- Google Sheets Python API
- Javascript/HTML
- Web Server
- ArcGIS Javascript API
- ArcGIS Online Python API
- Debugging
- GitHub
- Statistics
- Voyager
- Python objects
- pandas
- arcpy
- Shiny
- Setting up REMM
- BigQuery Python API
- Google Cloud Console Intro
- JSON
- MySQL on Web Server
- MatSim
- MS Access
- PHP
- iGraph
- Web accessibility (Sarah)
- Tile caching in Web Maps
- PandaNAs
- …and more
When effectively using the following branding techniques, we can increase interest and hype of the mission of the Tech Skills & Beyond meetings.
When saying the name Tech Skills & Beyond, keep in mind that it resembles that of retailer Bed Bath & Beyond. (The logo further emphasizes this similarity.) Just as Bed does not modify Bath, Tech does not modify Skills, but rather is a shortened version of the noun Technology. Additionally, further embellishment of & Beyond is only natural given Toy Story’s pop culturalization of these words. With these in mind, when saying Tech Skills & Beyond, please utilize the following vocal techniques:
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Despite the lack of a comma after Tech, a slight pause should be taken before proceeding to Skills. At a minimum, the pause can be about as long as a typical comma. However for additional emphasis, the pause should be significantly lengthened. This length should be also applied to the pause after the word Skills resulting in the following cadence: Tech… Skills… & Beyond. The longer the duration of the pause, the greater the need for technique #2.
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In an effort to utilize pop culture as an effective branding technique, increased emphasis should be applied to the words & Beyond. As a guide, follow the cadence and intonation of Buzz Lightyear as presented in Pixar’s Toy Story movies when he emphatically states his iconic catchphrase: To infinity and beyond! Remember, the increased emphasis of & Beyond necessitates elongation of the pauses described in technique #1. When combined with technique #1, you can easily sound dope like a millennial wannabe.
Besides being fun for technical polyglots, dropping an occasional non-English version of Tech Skills & Beyond can demonstrate our desire to seek learning from the breadth of human technical experience.
Pending confirmation by native speakers, here are the official meeting names in various languages:
- C:
#include <stdio.h>... - Java:
import java.io.*;... - JavaScript:
console.log("Tech Skills & Beyond"); - HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>... - MATLAB:
disp("Tech Skills & Beyond"); - PHP:
echo("Tech Skills & Beyond"); - Python:
print("Tech Skills & Beyond") - R:
cat('Tech Skills & Beyond') - Scala:
object TechSkillsBeyond extends App {... - VBA:
Private Sub Document_Open()...
- Chinese: 技术技能等
- German: Technologie Fähigkeiten und noch viel weiter
- Guarani: Tembiporu pyahu Katupyrykuéra ha hetave mba’e
- Hawaiian: ʻenehana akamai a oi aku
- Japanese: 技術力など
- Korean: 기술적 능력과 그 너머
- Maori: Hangarau Pukenga me etahi atu
- Portuguese: Tecnologia Habilidades e mais além
- Spanish: Tecnología Habilidades y más allá
- Swahili: Teknolojia Ujuzi na zaidi
- Suzie: Save mtx to csv within Cube
- Bill: TDM.py function to get value from control center
- Suzie: Customizing Cube link and node attribute display
- Josh: Let them eat Pickles!
- Chris: Function collection for python https://www.acgeospatial.co.uk/running-functions-juypter/
- Bill: code block in Google Chat:
[paste as plain text] - Bill: Plotly multi-select widget quick demo!!! (youtube tutorial)
- Chris: Getting around Windows file path max length in python
- Chris: Getting around Windows file path max length in git
- Josh: Bankers Rounding
- Chris: Leaflet interactive
- Bill: Non Repeating widgets
- Josh: NaN
- Josh: QGIS geospatial functions & pyscript
- Sarah: Bias in mapping
- Bill: vs code spell checker: Spell Right
- Bill: quarto iframe
- Chris: Github TDM Model Development Workflow
- Sarah: AI generated images, Adobe AI generative fill, license to Canva
- Chris: Scenario Name cannot begin with “T” “t” “N” or “n”. \t and \n escape characters
- Bill: ref chatgpt https://chat.openai.com/share/d127492a-ad78-4f45-afd0-50e29069db1a
- Bill: Relative path copy from File Explorer to VS Code jupyter notebook!
- Josh: Visual Studio Code CTRL+D to multiselect
- Bill: Compare two GitHub releases
- Chris: www.utahmug.org
- Bill: Access webmap renderer for layer (example) and JSON formatter
- Chris: Should Chris Day get a PE? – responses from TMIP
- Chris: pip freeze –> requirements.txt – creates a text file listing all version numbers
- Andy: pandas read_html to read in
- Chris: Send email via python
- Chris: Create “contained” html map with photo popups
- Andy: Geopandas Code
- Sarah: Mars Settlement Activity
- Bert: Toggle to switch from Web Mercator to UTM 12 in ArcGisPro
- Bill: Explode dataframe
- Bill: exclude variable from variable list with “_” in python
- Bill: http://geojson.io/
- Sarah: GIS Galaxy Quest
- Bill: Google Chat upgrading spaces organized by topics to inline threaded spaces
- Chris: Decrease load time by simplifying geographies
- Chris: Simplifying Polygons
- Josh: Visual Studio Code - Jump to matching “(“, “{“, “[“ Hotkey - (Ctrl + Shift + )
- Bill: ArcGIS Pro Transfer attributes
- Josh/Sarah: Color Blindness Simulator in Pro
- Chris: Saving to a File Geodatabase in R
- Chris: Simply Features in R
- Bill: Javascript spread operator (Spread Operator in JS | Simplified in 5 minutes)
- Bill: Live Server in vsCode
- Bert: SLUG Presentation
- Josh: ESRI Dev Summit (Ask a developer)
- Josh: Call for new TSB logo ideas
- Sarah: AGOL Clean-up update
- Bill: Beware the rename-file commits!
- Bill: Cube Voyager Tips and Tricks Wiki!!
- Bill: geopandas shapefile read
include_fields - Sarah: https://cartography-playground.gitlab.io/playgrounds/cartographic-generalization/
| Topic | Presenter | Date |
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| Setting up a Python Environment | Josh | Nov 22, 2022 |
| Setting up a Visual Studio Code IDE | Josh | Nov 29, 2022 |
| ArcGIS Pro Tips & Tricks | Matthew | Dec 6, 2022 |
| ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Intro (doc) | Bill | Dec 13-20, 2022 |
| Plotter FAQ | Matthew | Dec 20, 2022 |
| TDM Folder Structure | Suzie | January 17, 2023 |
| Setting Up a TDM Scenario | Suzie | January 24, 2023 |
| Google O/D Speed API | Andy | February 7, 2023 |
| RStudio Intro | Chris | February 14, 2023 |
| Python lambda | Bill/Chris | February 21, 2023 |
| Python list comprehensions & Python Index | Josh | February 28, 2023 |
| Google App Scripts | Bert | March 7, 2023 |
| Quarto | Chris | April 4, 2023 |
| geopandas vs arcpy | Josh | April 18, 2023 |
| Symbology and Colors | Sarah | April 25, 2023 |
| geopandas vs sf | Chris | May 9, 2023 |
| Observable JS | Bill | May 16, 2023 |
| Intro to Real Estate Market Model (REMM) | Andy | May 23, 2023 |
| Traffic Volume | Bill | June 6 & 27, 2023 |
| Popsim in REMM (popgen?) | Andy | July 18, 2023 |
| Adobe AI Generative Fill | Sarah | July 25, 2023 |
| Managing ArcGIS Online content with Python | Josh | July 25, 2023 |
| Web AppBuilder | Bill | August 1, 2023 |
| GitHub Pages Website with jekyll | Bill | August 15, 2023 |
| Owned-Unit Grouping Toolbox | Lilah | August 22, 2023 |
| Behind the Scenes: Wasatch Choice | Bert | September 19, 2023 |
| Passion Points | Andy/Chris | September 26, 2023 |
| TDM Documentation | Chad | October 10, 2023 |
| UTC Practice Presentation | Bill/Chris/Josh | October 17, 2023 |
| ArcGIS Jupyter Notebook Segment Shapefile Processing | Chris | October 31, 2023 |
| Housing Data Update | Josh | November 14, 2023 |
| Household Travel Survey Shiny Interface | Chris | November 28, 2023 |
| Plotting (by invitation only, Hugh, Josh, Chris, Andy, Jordon) | Sarah | December 12, 2023 |
| Housing App Demo | Josh | December 19, 2023 |
| Part 1: TRB Report | Chris | January 16, 2024 |
| Part 2: Request Tracker… Goodbye wishes! Hello Results! | Bert/Bill | January 16, 2024 |
| ArcGIS Online Cleanup | Sarah | February 6, 2024 |
| Passion Point Potpourri | All | February 13, 2024 |
| Mentimeter Survey Test | Bill | February 20, 2024 |