Python Tips and Tricks for ArcGIS
Live training seminar deliverred to over 4,400 people offering 48 tips and tricks from beginner to advanced to effectively use Python within ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and ArcGIS Enterprise.
This training seminar was so much fun to put together. My co-presenter Derek Nelson and I decided early on that we wanted to play much more fast and loose than other Esri training seminars had done. We wanted it to reflect the playful spirit of Python, and we wanted to normalize the failure that everybody regularly experiences when writing code. We had earned enough trust from our colleagues that they supported our vision, even though it was riskier than playing it straight.
Derek and I were sure the risk would pay off, and we were right. This training seminar had the highest attendence and highest participant rating of any live training seminar Esri had done since rolling out a new format in 2023. And when we had technical failures in the middle of the live seminar in front of thousands of people, we were able to roll right with it because of how we had internalized our own lessons: Failures are inevitable, so success cannot rely on perfection.