SESYNC Computational Institute

SESYNC

1 Park Place, Annapolis MD

 
March 30 - April 1, 2016
9:00 am - 5:00 pm

General Information

This season's Computational Institute will provide Workshop and Pursuit participants with hands-on instruction in tools for data management and analysis, geospatial principles and analysis, and interactive data visualizations. The goals of the workshop are to learn new skills, advance work on team projects, and get familiar with our CI.

Updates will be posted to this website as they become available.

Instructors: Kelly Hondula, Nick Magliocca, Philippe Marchand, Mary Shelley, Mike Smorul

Assistants: Kate Weiss

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop.

Contact: Please email nmagliocca@sesync.org for questions and information not covered here.

Etherpad: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/spring-csi2016

Teaching Materials

https://github.com/SESYNC-ci/ci-spring2016

Acknowledgements & Support

Portions of the instructional materials are adopted from Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry. The structure of the curriculum as well as the teaching style are informed by Software Carpentry.

Schedule (tentative)

We'll have coffee and snack breaks at 10:30am and 3:30pm daily.

SESYNC is providing lunch on site; attendees are responsible for their own breakfast and dinner arrangements (we can make recommendations)

Wednesday 9:00am Welcome and overview of SESYNC CI
9:15 Basic R
10:30 Break
10:45 Data processing and analysis in R (dplyr/tidyr)
12:30pm Lunch
1:30 Intro to relational databases and SQL
3:30 Break
4:00 Recap morning and participants share hacking topics/Qs
5:00 Reception (informal with snacks, tasty beverages, etc.)
Thursday 9:00amConsulting/hacking on projects
10:30 Break
10:45 Consulting/hacking on projects
11:30 Intro to spatial analysis with ArcGIS
12:30pm Lunch
1:30 Geospatial data types and analysis in R
3:30 Break
3:45 Consulting/hacking
Friday 9:00am RShiny and/or version control with git
10:30 Break
10:45 Consulting/Hacking/Additional instruction as desired
12:30pm Lunch