Who’s ready for the UC? If you’re like the Insights for ArcGIS team, you’re eagerly anticipating the chime of the bells signaling the start of the Plenary, and the world’s largest GIS conference.

If Insights for ArcGIS or data analytics is on your list of items to check out, below is a list of key events you shouldn’t miss during your time in sunny, San Diego.

For quick access, here’s a handy guide to help you navigate to Insights for ArcGIS during the UC.

Insights for ArcGIS in the Esri Showcase

Insights for ArcGIS is a web-based, data analytics workbench where you can explore spatial and non-spatial data, answer questions you didn’t know to ask, and quickly deliver powerful results. Use maps, charts, and tables to visualize data, apply advanced spatial analysis with a simple drag-and-drop, and begin telling your story like never before. Created the perfect process to analyze a dataset? Insights automatically records your analysis workflow as a model so you and others can run the analysis again to solve problems with alternative datasets. Easily share your analysis so others can iterate further, or use it to make better decisions.

Tuesday, July 10
9:00 am–6:00 pm

Wednesday, July 11
9:00 am–6:00 pm

Thursday, July 12
9:00 am–1:30 pm

Ground Level Exhibit Hall B, SDCC

Technical Workshop

Insights for ArcGIS: An Introduction

You will learn how to get started with Insights for ArcGIS, including adding data from numerous sources, exploring some of the analyses, and seeing how to share results and models, as we work through some analysis examples.

Tuesday, July 10
8:30 am – 9:30 am
SDCC – Ballroom 06 D

Tuesday, July 10
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
SDCC – Room 02

Wednesday, July 11
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
SDCC – Room 02

Insights for ArcGIS: Advanced Topics

This workshop will go beyond an introduction to Insights for ArcGIS and focus on describing more advanced analytics tools and visualizations on offer in Insights for ArcGIS. We will talk through when different methods and visualizations are most effective for answering questions, all of which will be applicable for analysis more broadly. The product team will also describe how Insights works behinds the scenes so you can understand how to get the most of using it for your needs and outline near-term road ahead plans.

Wednesday, July 11
8:30 am – 9:30 am
SDCC – Room 01 A/B

Thursday, July 12
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
SDCC – Room 33 A/B

Demo Theater

Get Up and Running with Insights for ArcGIS

With Insights for ArcGIS you can analyze and tell your story in many ways by exploring and visualizing spatial and non-spatial data in new infographics, smart mapping and charts. This presentation will introduce users to getting started, highlight best practices and provide tips and tricks to troubleshoot Insights so you can present your work in no time!

Tuesday, July 10
10:00 am – 10:45 am
SDCC – Demo Theater 16

The New Frontier in Spatial Business Intelligence for Water Utilities

Most utilities have an array of data about their daily operations, living in the various systems they manage. The challenge is how to understand these vast amounts of data that build up over time. Big datasets are not always easy to handle with traditional analysis tools and methods, as they can hide many subtle patterns and trends within. Insights for ArcGIS and GeoAnalytics Server are data analytics tools that let you explore the spatial and non-spatial data that your organization has collected. The data exploration and iteration capabilities these tools provide will help you uncover the secrets that lie within your data, and help you uncover the next questions to ask as you seek to better manage your operations. Come and see how Insights and GeoAnalytics can help you connect, explore, and analyze your organization’s data.

Tuesday, July 10
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm
SDCC – Esri Showcase – Envisioning Center 1 – Hall C

Tuesday, July 10
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm
SDCC – Esri Showcase – Envisioning Center 1 – Hall C

Insights: Top 5 Tips and Tricks

In this session, you will learn to use maps, charts, and tables; to visualize data, apply advanced spatial analysis, and begin telling your story like never before.

Wednesday, July 11
10:00 am – 10:45 am
SDCC – Demo Theater 17

Special Interest Group Meetings

National Security

At the National Security Special Interest Group Meeting, we will be discussing Insights for ArcGIS and how it can be used for national security workflows to, not only interrogate your data to understand hidden patterns and trends, but to do it in a way that limits the technological complexities of software from getting in the way. We will also highlight new capabilities available in Insights involving phase 1 efforts at link analysis that will help you better understand networks and influential nodes. Our SIG will conclude with user experiences from the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, Alabama Fusion Center and the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center.

Tuesday, July 10
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
SDCC – Room 28 A

Law Enforcement

Police rely on data to reduce crime, increase public trust and satisfaction, and become more efficient and safe. But often the decision-making process requires analysis of both spatial and non-spatial data. Insights for ArcGIS combines maps, charts and tables with advanced spatial analysis in an easy to use drag and drop interface that connects directly to your data with tools to visualize and understand relationships, identify patterns, make predictions and share with others. In this session we will explore how Insights for ArcGIS can enable the law enforcement decision-making process with its unique ability to analyze and interrogate all of your agencies data in one place.

Wednesday, July 11
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
SDCC – Room 32 A/B

See you in San Diego!