Welcome one and all! We have successfully made it to the end of another week, welcoming in a new season and all that comes with it. For those winding down, I have put together a list of our #DailyBrainCandiii posts from this week as well as our favorite #MapOfTheDay. Sit back, kick your feet up – but only if your boss will not yell at you – and enjoy! Geospatial Recreation #IronViz One of our partners, Tableau, is involved in quite a few inspiring campaigns. I do not say this

Spring has sprung. Even though it has felt like it here in Houston for a while now, today we usher in the official start of a new season…or so my calendar tells me. Spring marks the start of pleasant weather, sunshine, and an abundance of Peeps (marshmallows, not friends…although I suppose both are fine). For some, it also is a kickoff for getting life a bit more figured out. It is New Year’s Resolutions - Round Two. Another term for this, of course, is Spring Cleaning. In ho

Here we are, folks, at the end of yet another week! For those friends in the United States, if you have been able to make it through without taking naps under your desk or resorting to coffee on an IV drip, I commend you. Daylight Savings Time can be a mighty foe. For those friends not in the United States, consider your clocks blessed. We are eternally jealous of your restful lack of springing forward. To wind down for the week, I would like to share a collection of article

As the week is winding down and you are focusing on overlooked emails or traveling back to home-base from the Esri Dev Summit in Palm Springs, let's take a trip down memory lane. I would like to bundle up the neat articles we came across this week as part of #DailyBrainCandiii as well as our favorite #MapOfTheDay post. Sit back, relax, and enjoy that cup of coffee. It's on us. (Well, not really, but...you know.) Introducing a Human Geography Basemap For those who take advant

There is a Nobel Laureate who once said, "The times they are a-changin'." Although I cannot speak for Bob Dylan, I think that were he a geographer he would be referencing the way we use ArcGIS. Esri's ArcGIS platform is one of the most robust and trusted mapping resources in the Geographic Information System (GIS) industry. Organizations and institutions that employ it focus their efforts on working with ArcGIS Desktop - particularly ArcMap - and its various iterations. We kn

Relax, breathe. You have made it...both to this article and Friday. Congratulations! As a reward, I want to give you a breakdown of all the fun articles we have come across this week in our #DailyBrainCandiii posts, share an even more fun (funner? fun to the max?) #MapOfTheDay, and give you a space to chill for a bit before you start your day. Realizing the Potential of Big Data and Analytics "It's not what you know. It's what you do with what you know." The opener of this ar

Few professionals know pain like a geographer scorn. Scorn not by their boss or colleagues, but by the data they have worked so tirelessly to wrangle as well as the ArcGIS Map Document (.mxd) in which it sits. The source of contempt? Broken data sources. We have all been there. Worked for hours or days to compile the most spectacular of ArcGIS Map Documents to send to a client or show off in a meeting, pulled in the perfect Layers and Feature Classes to highlight that thing w

Here we are at the end of the work week. Is it just us, or do short weeks always feel longer? Regardless though, one thing stands true - We made it, folks! As you are winding down, sending out those last-minute emails you did not get around to yesterday, we wanted to give you a chance to procrastinate a bit more. No need to thank us, we are endlessly considerate. (Is it unprofessional to insert a wink-face emoji into a corporate blog post? Asking for a friend.) To end out thi

Here we are at the end of the work week. Is it just us, or do short weeks always feel longer? Regardless though, one thing stands true - We made it, folks! As you are winding down, sending out those last-minute emails you did not get around to yesterday, we wanted to give you a chance to procrastinate a bit more. No need to thank us, we are endlessly considerate. (Is it unprofessional to insert a winky-face emoji into a corporate blog post? Asking for a friend.) To end out th