Online
Mar 8-9, 2021
9:00 am - 4:00 pm MST
Instructors: Ryan Peek, Annajiat Alim Rasel, Lisa Rosenthal
Helpers: Rebecca Belshe, Calvin Pritchard, Jason Yalim, Gil Speyer, Martin Frigaard
Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing".
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where: This training will take place online. The instructors will provide you with the information you will need to connect to this meeting.
When: Mar 8-9, 2021. Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must have access to a computer with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Accessibility: We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. Please notify the instructors in advance of the workshop if you require any accommodations or if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.
Contact: Please email rbelshe@asu.edu , rapeek@ucdavis.edu or annajiat@gmail.com for more information.
Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.
Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.
We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.
Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.
We’ll be meeting via zoom at this link.
Before starting | Pre-workshop survey |
09:00am MST | Introductions! |
09:35am MST | 1. Introduction to Raster Data |
10:00am MST | 2. Introduction to Vector Data |
10:15am MST | 3. Coordinate Reference Systems |
10:30am MST | BREAK |
10:45am MST | 1. Introduction to R and RStudio |
11:05am MST | 2. Project Management With RStudio |
11:20am MST | 3. Data Structures |
12:30pm MST | LUNCH |
1:30pm MST | 4. Exploring Data Frames |
2:00pm MST | 5. Subsetting Data |
2:30pm MST | 6. Data frame Manipulation with dplyr |
3:05pm MST | BREAK |
3:20pm MST | 7. Introduction to Visualization |
3:50pm MST | 8. Writing Data |
4:00pm MST | Done! |
09:00am MST | 1. Introduction to Raster Data |
09:50am MST | 2. Plot Raster Data |
10:45am MST | BREAK |
11:00am MST | 3. Reproject Raster Data |
11:45am MST | 4. Raster Calculations |
12:00pm MST | LUNCH |
1:00pm MST | 6. Open and Plot Shapefiles |
1:30pm MST | 7. Explore and Plot by Vector Layer Attributes |
2:20pm MST | BREAK |
2:35pm MST | 8. Plot Multiple Shapefiles |
3:50pm MST | 9. Handling Spatial Projection & CRS |
--:--pm MST | 10. Convert from .csv to a Shapefile |
3:55pm MST | Post-workshop survey |
4:00pm MST | Done! |
To participate in a Data Carpentry workshop, you will need access to the software described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.
We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.
If you haven't used Zoom before, go to the official website to download and install the Zoom client for your computer.
Like other Carpentries workshops, you will be learning by "coding along" with the Instructors. To do this, you will need to have both the window for the tool you will be learning about (a terminal, RStudio, your web browser, etc..) and the window for the Zoom video conference client open. In order to see both at once, we recommend using one of the following set up options:
The setup instructions for the Data Carpentry Geospatial workshop can be found at the workshop overview site.