{"id":95,"date":"2021-09-27T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T04:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-199\/?p=95"},"modified":"2021-11-01T22:32:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:32:56","slug":"mcconkey-chapter-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/2021\/09\/27\/mcconkey-chapter-6\/","title":{"rendered":"McConkey: Chapter 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Chapter 6 took around an hour to read. It mostly handles how to confirm that data exists, creating lists to see where data is, and creating lists for specific data (ex. Isolating shapefiles). You can also use python scripting to describe the characteristics of a feature class, shapefile, raster, or table. An example of this would be to determine if a shapefile is a polyline through a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Describe ( )<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> function. Using a script to produce a list can help later on when using batch processing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key terms:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">System paths &#8211; the paths recognized by the Windows operating system<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Catalog paths &#8211; the paths that only ArcGIS Pro recognizes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">List comprehension &#8211; used to create lists from existing files in a variety of ways<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wildcard &#8211; All functions have a wildcard parameter (*), which defines a name filter. A wildcard is a symbol that represents one or more characters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What key similarities and differences are there between Describe ( ) and da.Describe ( ) functions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the Describe ( ) function, the properties of the object are dynamic. For the da.Describe ( ) function, the keys of the dictionary are dynamic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Chapter 6 took around an hour to read. It mostly handles how to confirm that data exists, creating lists to see where data is, and creating lists for specific data (ex. Isolating shapefiles). You can also <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/2021\/09\/27\/mcconkey-chapter-6\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-293\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}