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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How 8 Million+ Census 2020 Features were Hosted to ArcGIS Living Atlas

Learn how the Living Atlas team created items from U.S. Census Bureau's Redistricting data, and how you can also publish large datasets.

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Unclassed symbology is best for ranges, or data with uncertainty to it

Mapping data values with some uncertainty to them? Unclassed symbology honors this better than classed symbology.

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Census redistricting data and maps available in ArcGIS Living Atlas

From advocacy groups and citizens to official state redistricting commissions, all have access to this newly-released data through Living Atlas.

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Ethical considerations for surveys

Designing a survey and recruiting respondents can be challenging. Ethical considerations are a crucial part of this process.

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A drawing style designed for categorical data: Types

Types (unique symbols) is a drawing style best for categorical data, available in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise through Smart Mapping.

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Introducing UnemploymentPulse

UnemploymentPulse visualizes state and county unemployment rates as compact trend lines. Updated monthly.

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Show significant differences between two American Community Survey estimates

Use the margins of error in an Arcade expression to highlight significant differences between two American Community Survey (ACS) estimates.

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County-level Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by industry now available

A feature layer and an atlas of maps of GDP are some of the newest Living Atlas items available to you.

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The Importance of Margins of Error and Mapping

Surveyed data, like Census' ACS, contains a margin of error for each estimate. Learn what this error means and how to map it effectively.

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