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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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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Update attribute field aliases from a lookup table in ArcGIS Pro

Have field names and corresponding aliases stored as a two-column lookup table or data dictionary? Apply those aliases with our script tool.

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Citations and references for sources in ArcGIS StoryMaps

There are multiple ways to include scientific sources in ArcGIS StoryMaps.

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Use Arcade geometry functions with FeatureSets to provide spatial context

Present information from other layers in your pop-ups, such as lists of nearby schools or stores, using FeatureSets and geometry functions.

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Reveal demographic trends over time with American Community Survey layers in Living Atlas

Many 2010 - 2014 ACS layers have been added to Living Atlas which allow comparisons to the most recent 2015 - 2019 values.

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What’s New with Census ACS Living Atlas layers (December 2020)

Access the most current American Community Survey (ACS) data within ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.

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Updates coming to American Community Survey Living Atlas layers (Fall 2020)

In December 2020, the American Community Survey layers in ArcGIS Living Atlas will be updated with the newest 2015-2019 data from the Census.

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Ocean Plastics – “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”

Since the 1950s, it is estimated that 8.3 billion tons of plastics have been produced. Today only 9% of that plastic is recycled....

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Most recent hospitalization and mortality data for heart disease and stroke now available

CDC contributes new data layers for heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure medication nonadherence to ArcGIS Living Atlas.

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