I had my first lecture for Introduction to GIS last week, and opened ArcGISPro for the first time, it was fascinating! My professor told us that it's not user-friendly but I found it moderately easier to work with compared to R, which Biometry class a year or so ago had us utilize. I learned that there are typically two kinds of data formats, Geodatabase files[gdbf], which have gray icons and are only usable on ArcGIS (ERSI); and Shape files[shp], which are able to be used by other systems, are stored in file folders and have green icons.
Verbatim copy of notes: GIS-Geographic Information System. Spatial Data- needs attributes. Attribute table-every point/object has a corresponding record in the attribute table containing columns, including latitude and longitude.
Three kinds of data; TIN- rarely used, typically for terrain; Vector- points, lines, and polygons to represent real-world data, polygons can represent census tracts and parks, area data; Raster- grid surface comprised of cells, squares all of same dimension (square or rectangle) with one piece of data with a numeric value.
Two Rasters- categorical value has integer values that represent qualitative values, continuous- has decimals, floating point values representing qualitative data.
GDBF represents Raster if the icon looks like a grid/brick wall. GDBF representing Vector files only have one of three kinds of data, points OR lines OR polygons, one kind per each file.
All analysis happens in Map view- GSD. Geoprocessing tools- Analysis -> Tools -> Geoprocessing Pane pops up -> search using search bar