Exploring Environmental Data (ENS-215)

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ENS-215	Homework	Syllabus

Lectures

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Week 10

• Mon (10-Mar) – Introduction to data modeling (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (12-Mar) – Final projects: last steps and project submission

• Fri (14-Mar) – Final projects: Continue with project presentations

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Week 9

• Mon and Wed (3-Mar and 5-Mar) – Seasonality indices: Environmental applications (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (7-Mar) – Wrap up seasonality indices and final project work

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Week 8

Note: ESPE Winter Seminar Series Talk on Mon (Feb 24th, 6 PM in the Nott). Extra credit for attending the talk.

• Mon (24-Feb) – Bivariate data and time-series analysis (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (26-Feb) – Writing functions (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (28-Feb) – Time-series wrap-up and interactive graphics (html) (Rmd)

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Week 7

• Mon (17-Feb) – Spatial analysis: Analyzing and obtaining environmental rasters (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (19-Feb) – Descriptive statistics and univariate data (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (21-Feb) – Visualizing and interpreting data distributions (html) (Rmd) Graphical display of data distributions: Examples (html)

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Week 6

Note: ESPE Winter Seminar Series Talk on Mon (Feb 10th, 6 PM in the Nott). Extra credit for attending the talk.

• Mon (10-Feb) – Making maps in R: Introduction (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (12-Feb) – Making maps in R: Additional topics (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (14-Feb) – Spatial analysis : Introduction to rasters (html) (Rmd)

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Week 5

Note: ESPE Winter Seminar Series Talk on Mon (Feb 3rd, 6 PM in the Nott). Extra credit for attending the talk.

• Mon (3-Feb) – Reshaping, cleaning and tidying data (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (5-Feb) – Combining/joining data (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (7-Feb) – Finding and accessing environmental data in R (html) (Rmd)

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Week 4

• Mon (27-Jan) – Intro to data visualization (continued) (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (29-Jan) – Intro to data visualization (additional topics) (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (31-Jan) – Presentation quality graphics (html) (Rmd), Slides, Article by Kelleher and Wegener

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Week 3

• Mon (20-Jan) – Data wrangling continued (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (22-Jan) – Data wrangling group_by() and summarize() (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (24-Jan) – Intro to data visualization (html) (Rmd), Slides

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Week 2

• Mon (13-Jan) – Relational and logical operators, if/else/else if (html) (Rmd)

• Wed (15-Jan) – Control flow (for and while loops) (html) (Rmd)

• Fri (17-Jan) – Data wrangling intro (html) (Rmd)

• Extra credit events – ESPE Winter Seminar Series

  • Feb 3rd, 6:00 PM (Nott Auditorium)
    
  • Feb 11th, 6:00 PM (Nott Auditorium)
    
  • Feb 24th, 6:00 PM (Nott Auditorium)

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Week 1

• Mon (6-Jan) – Course introduction (html) (Rmd), In-class examples, Slides

• Wed (8-Jan) – Diving into R (html) (Rmd), Slides, Cheatsheets

• Fri (10-Jan) – R Programming and Markdown Basics (html) (Rmd)

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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)

  • Loading data into R (html) (Rmd)

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

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Mason Stahl (2025)
Union College