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"}],"short_description":"The Business Analyst data browser has new data variables and functional enhancements for the June 2023 release.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The data browser is a powerful interface that allows you to search for and add<\/span> demographic<\/span> data variables to your map.<\/span> With thousands of variables to explore, the data browser can help you find which <\/span>on<\/span>es are available for <\/span>a given<\/span> country or region<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When paired with the <\/span>GeoEnrichment service<\/span><\/a>, you can add data to the geographic boundaries of your choice, such as counties and census tracts (standard geographies) or wards and drive-time areas (nonstandard geographies). This kick-starts any spatial analysis, bringing together the data you need and the places you\u2019re interested in. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App, the data browser plays an essential role when creating color-coded maps, conducting suitability analysis, building infographics, and <\/span>performing other workflows<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" The June 2023 release brings an array of new variables to both U.S. and global demographic data collections, offering valuable insight into consumer spending, income distribution, and other areas of focus. Some of the highlights include the following: <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Above, a color-coded map shows Market Potential Index (MPI)<\/a> values for household subscriptions to Netflix streaming video services by block groups based on Esri 2023 estimates. This is one of several new Market Potential variables available for use in Business Analyst Web App.<\/p>\n Learn more about <\/span>what\u2019s new in Esri Demographics<\/span><\/a> as part of the June 2023 release, including updates to Standard Demographics, Advanced Demographics, and Places and Points of Interest (POI) data.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" In<\/span> the June 2023 release,<\/span> the data browser has <\/span>new capabilities to improve your browsing<\/span> experience<\/span> and search results<\/span>.<\/span> For instance, if you search for <\/span><\/span>winter sports<\/span><\/span> in the new<\/span> release of the Business Analyst<\/span> data browser, you will retrieve 183 results that pertain to winter sports. In compariso<\/span>n, searching for <\/span><\/span>winter sports<\/span><\/span> in the Classic app only yields 3 results. <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1994062,"id":1994062,"title":"2023-06-22_14-12-20","filename":"2023-06-22_14-12-20.png","filesize":89273,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-12-20.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/business\/whats-new-in-the-arcgis-business-analyst-data-browser-june-2023\/2023-06-22_14-12-20","alt":"Compare search results for \u201dwinter sports\u201d in the new Business Analyst data browser compared to the Classic app","author":"321952","description":"","caption":"","name":"2023-06-22_14-12-20","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1994052,"date":"2023-06-23 14:00:43","modified":"2023-06-23 14:00:52","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":1278,"height":368,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-12-20-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-12-20.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":134,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-12-20.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":221,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-12-20.png","large-width":1278,"large-height":368,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-12-20.png","1536x1536-width":1278,"1536x1536-height":368,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-12-20.png","2048x2048-width":1278,"2048x2048-height":368,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-12-20-826x238.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":238,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-12-20.png","wide_image-width":1278,"wide_image-height":368}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" Behind the scenes, when you enter your search term, the ArcGIS Rest API converts the search term into a meaning vector representation using a pre-trained AI language model. The meaning vector of the search term is compared to the meaning vectors of variable descriptions to find the most semantically similar variable descriptions to the search string. This means that when you search for something that is phrased differently than how the variable is named in the data browser it will still return results that are similar in meaning to the search string. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n One of the key\u00a0developers working on\u00a0the data browser, Nirvan Theethira, describes the technical background of this enhancement:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"blockquote","content":" The core of the improved search experience is the meaning vector representations of variable descriptions. This is done using a pre-trained sentence transformer language model based on the BERT neural network architecture that has a latent understanding of the colloquial English language. This understanding is leveraged to create meaning vector representations of variable descriptions that embed semantic meaning of text in mathematical form. These meaning vectors can be compared using common distance measurement techniques to find the most similar variable descriptions to a user input search string in the data browser.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"blockquote","content":" The language model gains latent understanding of English in two stages of pre-training. In the first pre-training stage, the language model is trained on a large corpus of English text giving it an understanding of the syntax of the language. In the next pre-training stage, the language model is trained on similar and dissimilar phrases giving it an understanding of semantic similarity and dissimilarity.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" Additionally, t<\/span>here is a new<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>find similar variables<\/span><\/span><\/a> option related <\/span>to your search terms that is <\/span>active<\/span> by default. To turn off this option, <\/span>clic<\/span>k the gear icon next to the search bar.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1994072,"id":1994072,"title":"2023-06-22_14-18-03","filename":"2023-06-22_14-18-03.png","filesize":21395,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-18-03.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/bus-analyst\/business\/whats-new-in-the-arcgis-business-analyst-data-browser-june-2023\/2023-06-22_14-18-03","alt":"Find similar variables option in the Business Analyst data browser","author":"321952","description":"","caption":"","name":"2023-06-22_14-18-03","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1994052,"date":"2023-06-23 14:01:45","modified":"2023-06-23 14:01:54","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":1848,"height":288,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-18-03-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-18-03.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":72,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-18-03.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":120,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-18-03.png","large-width":1848,"large-height":288,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-18-03-1536x239.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":239,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-18-03.png","2048x2048-width":1848,"2048x2048-height":288,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-18-03-826x129.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":129,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-22_14-18-03.png","wide_image-width":1848,"wide_image-height":288}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" This enhancement enables a more sophisticated semantic search compared to the <\/span>previous<\/span> exact word match search. While this expands the number of variable results to variables that may not exactly match your search, the longer list of results is ordered in decreasing semantic similarity to the search string<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":" We hope that you find these new demographic data variables and data browser enhancements useful. For more information about the June 2023 Esri Demographics and ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App releases, check out these resources:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Card image courtesy of\u00a0Glenn Carstens-Peters<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n"}],"related_articles":[{"ID":1956162,"post_author":"4141","post_date":"2023-06-14 14:00:40","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-14 21:00:40","post_content":"","post_title":"What's New in Esri U.S. Demographics (June 2023)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"whats-new-in-esri-u-s-demographics-june-2023","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-13 11:51:14","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-13 18:51:14","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1956162","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1977482,"post_author":"290952","post_date":"2023-06-15 05:00:16","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-15 12:00:16","post_content":"","post_title":"What's new in ArcGIS Business Analyst Web App | June 2023","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"whats-new-in-arcgis-business-analyst-web-app-june-2023","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-13 11:48:27","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-13 18:48:27","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1977482","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1965022,"post_author":"312412","post_date":"2023-06-14 19:30:32","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-15 02:30:32","post_content":"","post_title":"What's new with business data in ArcGIS Business Analyst | June 2023","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"whats-new-with-business-data-in-arcgis-business-analyst","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-13 11:50:38","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-13 18:50:38","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1965022","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1971422,"post_author":"78361","post_date":"2023-06-14 20:00:51","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-15 03:00:51","post_content":"","post_title":"Migrate U.S. standard geography sites to the Esri 2023 data source in Business Analyst","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"standard-geography-sites-in-2023-data-source","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-08-13 11:49:48","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-13 18:49:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1971422","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":1925102,"post_author":"198752","post_date":"2023-06-15 12:00:38","post_date_gmt":"2023-06-15 19:00:38","post_content":"","post_title":"Measuring Relative Social Position with Esri\u2019s Socioeconomic Status Index","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"sei","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-06-15 14:24:11","post_modified_gmt":"2023-06-15 21:24:11","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1925102","menu_order":0,"post_type":"blog","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Untitled-design-13.png","wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2023\/06\/whats_new_BA_banner_image.png","show_article_image":false},"yoast_head":"\nWhat new data <\/span>has been <\/span>added to the Business Analyst data browser?<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
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What new capabilities are added to the <\/span>Business Analyst <\/span>data browser?<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
Additional<\/span> resources<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"
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