From the course: Python Scripting Using the ArcGIS API for Python

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The record set: Getting to the data and properties

The record set: Getting to the data and properties

From the course: Python Scripting Using the ArcGIS API for Python

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The record set: Getting to the data and properties

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- [Instructor] Let me show you how to get to data as a feature set using the ArcGIS API for Python, 'cause once we get the data as a feature set, we can start querying it, doing statistics, and running geo processing tools. A reminder of some terminology here, we have feature services that are the actual online geospatial data, access through a URL, an item ID, or a query on our GIS object. We connect to those feature services as feature layer collections, and then we can pull off any of the feature services we want from that collection. So it's feature service, feature layer collection, we've brought it into our script. Feature layer, we've pulled off the one layer we want to work with. These feature layers can be used to display data on a map, for example, but then there are also these feature sets, which are actual data sitting there in memory in our notebook that we can use for analysis. When I want to actually work with the data in a feature service, I have to first grab the…

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