{"id":1201832,"date":"2021-05-06T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1201832"},"modified":"2021-05-06T10:33:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:33:13","slug":"add-context-to-your-dashboards-using-data-expressions-living-atlas","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/ops-dashboard\/data-management\/add-context-to-your-dashboards-using-data-expressions-living-atlas","title":{"rendered":"Add Context to your Dashboards using Data Expressions + Living Atlas"},"author":6461,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851],"tags":[147192,268131,110852],"industry":[],"product":[36671,36581],"class_list":["post-1201832","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","tag-dashboard","tag-living-atlas","tag-schools","product-ops-dashboard","product-arcgis-living-atlas"],"acf":{"short_description":"Add valuable information into your dashboards using the new Arcade Data Expressions within ArcGIS Dashboards + ArcGIS Living Atlas content.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

ArcGIS Dashboards provide an easy way to communicate vital spatial information to those who need it. Alongside, ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World contains a wide range of authoritative spatial content from trusted data sources. Pairing these two together allows us to quickly create informative maps, and with the introduction of Data Expressions within ArcGIS Dashboards the possibilities are continuing to expand.<\/p>\n

In the blog Introducing Data Expressions in ArcGIS Dashboards<\/a>, my colleague Vivek Malleshappa<\/a> explains how you can now use an Arcade<\/a> FeatureSet to pull additional data into your dashboards. This is extremely powerful for two main reasons: you don\u2019t need to own the layer, and you don’t have to add the layer into your map. Combining this functionality with the rich amount of content within Living Atlas opens new doors for dashboard creation. You can add context about the population, environment, infrastructure, and so much more. You can even add new elements to your existing dashboards without making any alterations to your web maps.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an example dashboard<\/a> showing school districts in the US along with socioeconomic characteristics related to the population living within that school district. You can use the select tool on the map to learn more about the schools in a district, see the racial profile of the population living within the district, or gain insight about how many children are facing hardships within that district. You can see how the various indicators change from district to district, providing a comparison of the community characteristics.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1205372,"id":1205372,"title":"Dashboard","filename":"Dashboard.png","filesize":375601,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dashboard.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/ops-dashboard\/data-management\/add-context-to-your-dashboards-using-data-expressions-living-atlas\/dashboard-9","alt":"","author":"6461","description":"","caption":"Click on the image to open the dashboard in a new window","name":"dashboard-9","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1201832,"date":"2021-04-20 21:47:48","modified":"2021-04-20 21:48:20","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1009,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dashboard-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dashboard.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":244,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dashboard.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":404,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dashboard.png","large-width":1920,"large-height":1009,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dashboard-1536x807.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":807,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dashboard.png","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1009,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dashboard-826x434.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":434,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dashboard.png","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1009}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/apps\/dashboards\/51a6ccac5d334fd18eb81a78cb1cd985"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

The (not so) secret is that this entire dashboard was created using Living Atlas content: the districts, the schools, and the demographics shown in the indicators. The real secret is that the map itself doesn\u2019t contain any of the demographic layers. All of the socioeconomic indicators in this dashboard were brought in using Data Expressions to access the tabular and spatial information from four different Living Atlas layers:<\/p>\n