March 30 - April 1, 2016
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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
https://github.com/SESYNC-ci/ci-spring2016
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.
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 | 9:00am | Consulting/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 |