Module 5: Exploring & Manipulating Data

This lab assignment involved authoring a script which create a file geodatabase, then copied all the shapefiles from another directory into that newly created geodatabase, and finally query the geodatabase for some data.

My script for the most part adheres to many of the examples provided on Esri ArcGIS Pro documentation and leverages the "newer" API and with-statements available in Python. Below is a generalized flow chart showing the script and a screenshot of the expected output. The script took about 20 minutes to create the biggest issue is Esri documentation, it terrible to navigate, wordy, and not very intuitive. Probably spent more time chatting on the Canvas discussion then working on this assignment. Overall it was a fun distraction from the typical tediousness of a large, unfamiliar code base.

Figure 1: Flowchart of Script

Figure 2: Expected Output