800960 VU Data management and analysis for environmental sciences
winter semester 2022/2023 | Last update: 27.02.2023 | Place course on memo list- Data and metadata management and formats
- Data storage and the use of online data repositories
- Data sharing: Ethics, obligations and ownership
- Data analysis and basic programming in R
- Tidy data and the ‘tidyverse’: efficient data manipulation
- effective data visualisation
- Reproducible research: R markdown
- Version control
The aim of this course is to give advanced environmental science students an introduction into the concepts of data science. It will teach the ethics of open data, the concept and creation of metadata, and methods for efficient analysis of data. By the end of the course, students will know how to store and organise their own data and how to make it accessible and shareable and how to use online repositories. They will be able to analyse and visualize environmental data in R and create reproducible and shareable reports of their analysis. All course content will be backed up with practical examples from different environmental science disciplines.
Lectures combined with practical exercises on computers.
Written exercises with computer.
Not yet defined.
Members of the DP Alpine Biology and Global Change will be preferred, other fields of study welcome
Students' wishes regarding content can be taken into consideration (within reasonable limits)
- Interdisciplinary and additional courses
- SDG 13 - Climate action: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts by regulating emissions and promoting developments in renewable energy.
Group 0
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Date | Time | Location | ||
Tue 2022-11-22
|
09.00 - 12.00 | HS B Botanik HS B Botanik | ||
Fri 2022-11-25
|
09.00 - 12.00 | HS B Botanik HS B Botanik | ||
Tue 2022-12-06
|
14.00 - 17.00 | HS B Botanik HS B Botanik | ||
Tue 2022-12-13
|
14.00 - 17.00 | HS B Botanik HS B Botanik | ||
Tue 2023-01-10
|
09.00 - 12.00 | HS B Botanik HS B Botanik | ||
Tue 2023-01-17
|
09.00 - 12.00 | HS B Botanik HS B Botanik | ||
Tue 2023-01-24
|
09.00 - 12.00 | HS B Botanik HS B Botanik | ||
Tue 2023-01-31
|
09.00 - 12.00 | HS B Botanik HS B Botanik |