Exploring Environmental Data (ENS-215)

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ENS-215	Homework	Syllabus

Lectures

Week 10

• Mon (6-Mar) – Seasonality indices: Environmental applications (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (8-Mar) – Final projects

• Fri (10-Mar) – Final project presentations

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Week 9

• Mon (27-Feb) – Interactive graphics (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (1-Mar) – Writing functions (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (3-Mar) – No class: use this time to work on final projects

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Week 8

Note: ESPE Winter Seminar Series Talk on Wed (Feb 22^nd, 6 PM in the Nott). Extra credit for attending the talk.

• Mon (20-Feb) – Rasters continued: Obtaining and analyzing raster data (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (22-Feb) – Bivariate data and time-series analysis (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (24-Feb) – Introduction to data modeling (html) (Rmd)

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Week 7

Note: ESPE Winter Seminar Series Talk on Wed (Feb 15^th, 5 PM in the Nott). Extra credit for attending the talk.

• Mon (13-Feb) – Making maps in R (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (15-Feb) – Making maps in R: Additional topics (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (17-Feb) – Spatial analysis continued: Introduction to rasters (html) (Rmd)

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Week 6

• Mon (6-Feb) – Descriptive statistics and univariate data (html) (Rmd) and Loading data into R (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (8-Feb) – Visualizing and interpreting data distributions (html) (Rmd) and Graphical display of data distributions: Examples (html)

• Fri (10-Feb) – Finding and accessing environmental data in R (html) (Rmd)

Week 5

Note: ESPE Winter Seminar Series Talk on Wed (Feb 1st, 6 PM in the Nott). Extra credit for attending the talk.

• Mon (30-Jan) – Presentation quality graphics (html) (Rmd), (Slides), Article by Kelleher and Wagener (2011)

• Wed (1-Feb) – Reshaping, cleaning, and tidying data (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (3-Feb) – Combining/joining data (html) (Rmd)

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Week 4

• Mon (23-Jan) – Intro to data visualization (html) (Rmd), Slides

• Wed (25-Jan) – Intro to data visualization (continued) (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (27-Jan) – Data visualization (additional topics) (html) (Rmd)

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Week 3

• Mon (16-Jan) – Data wrangling intro (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (18-Jan) – Data wrangling continued (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (20-Jan) – Data wrangling group_by() and summarize() (html) (Rmd)

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Week 2

• Mon (9-Jan) – R Programming and Markdown Basics (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (11-Jan) – Relational and logical operators, if/else/else if (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (13-Jan) – Control flow (for and while loops) (html) (Rmd)

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Week 1

• Wed (4-Jan) – Course introduction (html) (Rmd), In-class examples, Slides

• Fri (6-Jan) – Diving into R (html) (Rmd), Slides, Cheatsheets

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Labs

• Lab 1 – Intro and EPA Fuel Economy Data (html) (Rmd)

• Lab 2 – Dams and Reservoirs: A global analysis (html) (Rmd)

• Lab 3 – Groundwater Arsenic in Bangladesh (html) (Rmd)

• Lab 4 – Final project kick-off (html)

• Lab 5 – Final project: post-proposal consultations and analysis (html)

• Lab 6 – Project formatting, organization, and additional project work (html)

• Lab 7 – Final projects: progress updates and additional analysis

• Lab 8 – Final project presentations

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Mason Stahl (2023)
Union College