• You can now store all your data in ArcGIS Online; search your data and public data published by others, access them via URLs; publish your data there (and share with others as needed, eg with groups. Make sure to add metadata)
• ArcGIS can manage many types of data: maps, layers, tools, apps, notebooks. Even powerpoints.
• Some of the functionality of ArcGIS Python API is also implemented in ArcGIS Online and is available via the UI
• Many ways to add your data to AGOL. E.g., save your dataframe into AGOL, convert to Spatially Enabled DF (SEDF), then save as FeatureLayer. Or upload a shapefile and Publish it to AGOL. Publishing spatial data often uses shapefiles as the intermediary format - Beware of shapefile limitations!
• Make sure the data is clean!
• Know how to share your data items with Group, Organization, Everyone.
• One can setup map widgets and add layers to them
• SEDF is similar to GDF (“shape” vs “geometry”, different representation of spatial info in the data frame)
• Recall how we've joined attribute data to spatial data in Geopandas - it is the same in ArcGIS Python API.
• We can get statistical data for mapping using free Census data APIs wrappers - but not too powerful.
• Geoenrichment may add data to several types of study areas, defined by buffers around features, by driving (walking, trucking) times, by geographic names, etc.