Lauren Walcott

Local gov data nerd working for the City of Westminster, CO #spatialisntspecial🤓✌️

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@tipsyviolet 👏👏👏

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@tipsyviolet

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@Spatial_Punk 💯💯💯

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@liamsadams Tom Scribner, aka Westy's official water wizard 🤓

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@TheBaconDiaries Season 1 of The Opportunist is an excellent modern day cult story with a sprinkle of true crime

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In my 3 years of working in #localgov I've made a lot of progress with how we manage data (implemented metadata, created policies, linked servers and deployed data viz) but nothing will impress my users as much as me being able to compare two columns in Excel 😂 #allhailExcel

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@AdriaF

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@rlw425 It looked like a miniature homemade Tesla Cybertruck 😂

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@sumbitches Rocky IV for our World History Cold War unit 😂

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@westminsterco

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@westminsterco Brock Hufford aka #DoctorSnow

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@westminsterco Mark Uhland aka #ProfessorSnow

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@pcrickard #hottake very few GIS people actually understand what a hot spot analysis is (other then colored blobs) but they sure as hell accept defaults and provide it as authoritative facts to leadership

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@pcrickard #nailedit

I'm low-key jealous of those ITS datasets. We do a terrible job of capturing that data at my municipality.

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@pcrickard Excellent haha! My other favorite is utility data. The number of hoops we have to jump through to share utility data when most agencies probably just have it chilling open on their ArcServer

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@pcrickard #woof a few years ago I found traffic accident data from an agency that would not provide it to us...but they published an unsecure map service #finderskeepers

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@ajturner @pcrickard @hunter_owens Absolutely! Many of our issues in #localgov GIS are rooted in fear because of the lack of IT skills. There needs to be alignment between IT governance and GIS, we can't exclude ourselves from the group and then be shocked when we don't have a seat at the table and get left behind

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@pcrickard @hunter_owens #preach when hiring for what are traditionally GIS jobs on my team (public works asset management) I have an insanely hard time recruiting candidates who prioritize data over "pretty" let alone have data skills, or willingness to learn, outside of ESRI data manipulation tools