{"id":77271,"date":"2017-06-14T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T10:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/insights-for-water-utilities-data-data-data-using-rich-data-sources-from-inside-and-outside-of-your-organization\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:13:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:13:13","slug":"insights-for-water-utilities-data-data-data-using-rich-data-sources-from-inside-and-outside-of-your-organization","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/analytics\/analytics\/insights-for-water-utilities-data-data-data-using-rich-data-sources-from-inside-and-outside-of-your-organization","title":{"rendered":"Insights for Water Utilities \u2013 Data, Data, Data!!  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web-based application that helps you integrate spatial intelligence with your organization\u2019s data.\u00a0 Whether it is looking at adoption of rebate programs or analyzing your main breaks, insights allows you to answer questions quickly and present those answers in a clear and concise manner. \u00a0\u00a0In this the last of a three-part blog, we will be focusing on how water utilities can prepare their authoritative GIS data for use in Insights, how to consume non-spatial data, and how to consume living atlas data sources in Insights. \u00a0If you haven\u2019t read the other blogs in this series, you can find the first blog\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/2017\/05\/24\/insights-for-water-utilities-data-discovery-and-exploration\/\">here<\/a>, and the second blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/2017\/06\/05\/insights-for-water-utilities-answering-questions-with-powerful-analysis-2\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Using your authoritative GIS data in insights <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Your organization likely has a large amount of data stored in its GIS.\u00a0 This data can consist of your current infrastructure and projects but also years of historic data around leaks, consumption, repairs, service orders and much more.\u00a0 Getting this geographic data into Insights is a very straight forward process, but there are a few things you can do to make sure you can fully realize the value of this data.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Making sure your data has unique identifiers is crucial with Insights, the power to relate spatial to non-spatial data is impressive and having that unique identifier is what allows that relationship to occur.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Review your field types, confirm that dates are actually date fields and that your text and integer fields are set up correctly for what type of data they contain.\u00a0 Even though you can change the field type in insights on the fly, having proper field types is still recommended.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Publishing your data for use in Insights is a very familiar process, simply publish the data you want to consume from ArcGIS Pro into the Data Store on the portal that hosts Insights, that\u2019s it!\u00a0 Once the data is in your data store it is ready to use in Insights.\u00a0 There are two main strategies for publishing your data:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Publish out multiple layers in one service from Pro for consumption in Insights (fig. 1).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Publish out individual layer is pro for consumption in Insights (fig. 2).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79433\" style=\"width: 542px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Fig-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79433 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Fig-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig. 1: Publishing Multiple Layers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79434\" style=\"width: 524px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Fig-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79434 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Fig-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"842\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig. 2: Publishing Individual Layers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Both strategies will allow your data to be consumed in Insights, but for related data and projects with many layers it may be beneficial to publish them out as a single or a couple of services.\u00a0 This will cut down on your service load and make the backend administration a little bit more manageable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">What about Non-Spatial Data?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Along with consuming your spatial and enterprise GIS data, Insights can consume non-spatial data as well.\u00a0 There are several ways you can get this non-spatial data into Insights, some are appropriate for ad hoc analysis while others are more appropriate for long-term projects or analysis.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Feature tables in Portal for ArcGIS hosted feature services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Microsoft Excel files loaded into Insights through the Add Data Dialog.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Connecting to another database though the included database connectors which currently support Microsoft SQL Server, SAP HANA, and Teradata.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Choosing which type of connection to use is important and the tips below can help you determine which is the best choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">If your data already exists as a table in a SDE or FGDB then publish it out as a feature table to Portal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">If the data exists in one of the mentioned database systems consume it directly from that database.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">If you have Excel data that you want to use on an ad hoc basis, for testing reasons, or for a simple analysis just drag the file or brows to it in the Excel tab of the add data dialog.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">If you would like to use Excel data in a project that you will update frequently, will be long in duration, or will require many analysis and calculation tasks it is best to load the Excel file into a database or convert it to a feature table.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Following these guidelines should make working with your data much easier in Insights, and will take a lot of the guesswork out of any trouble shooting that may be data related.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Accessing the Living Atlas in Insights<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Along with accessing your organizations data in Insights you also have access to all the content contained in the Living Atlas.\u00a0 The Living Atlas is the foremost collection of global geographic information, it is curated by Esri with contributions from both its partner and user communities.<br \/>\nThere are two main ways to access data from the Living Atlas in Insights.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Loading base geographies from the Living Atlas (US Counties, Parks, Census Boundaries, etc.) into your Insights page.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Enriching your own layers with data from the living atlas (Census Data, Spending Habits, Income Data, etc.).\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">There are dozens of geographies available for you to access and more than 700 variables for use in enrichment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">To add Geographies simply click on the Add Data button and select \u201cMy Organization\u201d from the list of data sources, this will show all the Living Atlas geographies available to your organization (they will be authored by \u201cesri_livingatlas\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79446\" style=\"width: 1040px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Living-Atlas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Living-Atlas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1040\" height=\"582\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Living Atlas Geographies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">To enrich your data with information from the living atlas first click on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/server.arcgis.com\/en\/insights\/latest\/use\/apply-spatial-analytics.htm\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1;font-family: Calibri\">Action Button<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> and select the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/server.arcgis.com\/en\/insights\/latest\/use\/apply-spatial-analytics.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_CE8F7F68D0B5414FAA2DB9077143CCA6\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1;font-family: Calibri\">\u201cEnrich Data\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> tool, select the layer you would like to enrich and open the data browser. \u00a0In the data browser, you can navigate to one or many of the variables you would like to append to your dataset.\u00a0 Spend some time exploring the data browser to get an idea of the depth of data available.\u00a0 One of the most common datasets we used in our forums were focused on consumer spending habits to identify areas where residents may be amenable to rebate programs for appliances and reduction of irrigated land.\u00a0 Once you have selected the variables you are interested in click the apply button and the variables will be appended onto the dataset you selected to be enriched.\u00a0 From that point, you can create rich maps with this data or analyze it using the tools available in Insights.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79450\" style=\"width: 1870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Data-Browser.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Data-Browser.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1870\" height=\"976\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Living Atlas Data Browser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Insights for ArcGIS allows you to access your data from many different locations, it allows you to take data from disparate business systems and easily combine them together to perform powerful analysis.\u00a0 Insights also gives you the ability to easily reach out and grab hundreds of demographic variables that can help your organization make better decisions and improve how you serve your customers.\u00a0 Check out the story maps <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/go.esri.com\/spatial-bi-forum\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1;font-family: Calibri\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> to see what other water utilities are doing with Insights for ArcGIS. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Want some help getting started, see our <\/span><a 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