Diana Lavery

(she/her/hers) Diana loves working with data. She has 15 years experience as a practitioner of demography, sociology, economics, policy analysis, and GIS. Diana holds a BA in quantitative economics and an MA in applied demography. She is a senior GIS engineer on ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World's Policy Maps team. Diana enjoys strong coffee and clean datasets, usually simultaneously.

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Learn about American Community Survey data throughout ArcGIS

Did you know you can use ACS data in both ArcGIS Living Atlas and ArcGIS Business Analyst? Learn more about ACS data in these two products.

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Your Demographic Questions Answered

Learn how to find and use demographic data throughout the ArcGIS platform to better understand your community.

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Which chart styles go with which mapping styles?

Much like how there are principles behind food and wine pairings, there are principles when it comes to pairing charts with maps.

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How aggregation resolves reliability concerns for American Community Survey data

Get a quick sense of how much you'll have to aggregate tracts together to get a reliable American Community Survey estimate.

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Data and maps in Living Atlas included in Esri Small Nonprofit Grant

Data and maps in ArcGIS Living Atlas are all included in the Small Nonprofit Grant Organization Initiative

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Inflation is coming. What’s a GIS Analyst to do?

Understanding inflation when mapping median household income, home value, and other attributes with monetary values.

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School characteristics from National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) now available

Characteristics about individual schools as well as school districts have been contributed by National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

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Three, Two, One: Updates to Countdown Instant App

Countdown is an Instant App template, enabling you to create an interactive "top-ten" experience that tours through a statistical map.

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The beauty of binary data

How those 1s and 0s make a data analyst's job easier to get quick statistics.

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