{"id":2615292,"date":"2024-12-12T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T17:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2615292"},"modified":"2024-12-12T14:08:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T22:08:47","slug":"whats-new-in-arcgis-geoanalytics-engine-december-2024","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/geoanalytics-engine\/analytics\/whats-new-in-arcgis-geoanalytics-engine-december-2024","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New in ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine (December 2024)"},"author":342532,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23341],"tags":[765912,25351,768872,35561],"industry":[],"product":[765842],"class_list":["post-2615292","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytics","tag-arcgis-geoanalytics-engine","tag-big-data","tag-big-data-analytics","tag-geoanalytics","product-geoanalytics-engine"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":342532,"user_firstname":"Sarah","user_lastname":"Battersby","nickname":"Sarah Battersby","user_nicename":"sbattersby","display_name":"Sarah Battersby","user_email":"sbattersby@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2023-07-17 22:33:34","user_description":"Sarah is a Product Manager for ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine. 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This update includes a new tool for analyzing movement patterns between entities (Find Co-Travelers), as well as a new set functions for working with motion data using the track data concept. We are also expanding the variety of spatial formats and programming languages supported, and adding API keys for authentication to improve security and governance for your GeoAnalytics Engine deployment. These new features bring more of Esri\u2019s industry-leading geospatial analytics capabilities directly to your big data \u2013 in a data lake, data warehouse, or ArcGIS.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at the highlights in a bit more detail:<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Analyze movement patterns between entities<\/h2>\n<p>To make it easier to analyze movement between entities, we have introduced a tool to find co-travelers.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.arcgis.com\/geoanalytics\/tools\/find-co-travelers\/\">Find Co-Travelers<\/a> analyzes time-enabled points representing moving entities and finds where two entities are moving together in space (location) and time, also known as co-traveling. 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spatial format and programming language support<\/h2>\n<p>Giving users flexibility to work with the data formats and languages that they prefer is important to us.\u00a0For the GeoAnalytics Engine 1.5 release we have added support for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geohash\">GeoHash identifiers<\/a> and the Scala programming language, in additional to our existing support for Python and SQL.\u00a0 Currently Scala is only available for the GeoAnalytics <em>functions<\/em>, with additional enhancements planned for a future release.\u00a0 We have also updated our data sources to include the <a href=\"https:\/\/geoparquet.org\/releases\/v1.1.0\/\">GeoParquet 1.1 specification<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Manage users&#8217; access with API keys<\/h2>\n<p>Security and governance for authorized users is important in managing your analytics environment. To make it easier to provide access to users across your organization, we are introducing the ability to create (and delete) API keys that can authorize GeoAnalytics Engine. These API keys can be used to control access and allow multiple users within a single GeoAnalytics Engine subscription. Additional details can be found in the documentation on <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.arcgis.com\/geoanalytics\/install\/authorization\/\">authorization methods for GeoAnalytics Engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We update ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine a few times a year to make spatial analytics a seamless part of your data science workflows. We are always looking to hear from you about the features you need for your big data spatial analytics!<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the latest enhancements, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.arcgis.com\/geoanalytics\/release-notes\/?aduc=PublicRelations&amp;sf_id=7015x000001RnGtAAK&amp;adut=all-links-release-blog&amp;aduco=GAE-release-blog-1.4&amp;aduca=CRAArcGISGeoAnalyticsEngine&amp;utm_id=7015x000001RnGtAAK&amp;adum=Blog&amp;utm_campaign=CRAArcGISGeoAnalyticsEngine&amp;utm_source=PublicRelations&amp;utm_medium=Blog\">product release notes<\/a>. For resources on getting started, tips and tricks with various tools, and much more be sure to check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.esri.com\/t5\/geoanalytics-engine\/ct-p\/geoanalytics-engine?aduc=PublicRelations&amp;sf_id=7015x000001RhGUAA0&amp;aduco=whats-new-blog-esri-community&amp;aduca=MIArcGISGeoAnalyticsEngine&amp;adum=Blog&amp;utm_source=PublicRelations\">GeoAnalytics Engine Community Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n"}],"related_articles":[{"ID":2388792,"post_author":"323652","post_date":"2024-06-27 08:05:40","post_date_gmt":"2024-06-27 15:05:40","post_content":"","post_title":"What's New in ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine (June 2024)","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"whats-new-in-arcgis-geoanalytics-engine-june-2024","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-27 08:03:46","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-27 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