Past Workshops

During the 2018-2019 school year, the Center for Spatial Data Science piloted the R Spatial Workshop for researchers, students, and staff. The workshops were run by Angela Li, R Spatial Advocate for the CSDS. An outline of the workshops that were held are included below, with links to the workshop notes from each session.

Topics covered during the workshops included:

  • Spatial data formats
  • Projections
  • Spatial data handling
  • Spatial data operations
  • Static maps
  • Interactive maps
  • Organization of research projects
  • Reproducible research with R

Find the current quarter’s workshops on our main Events page.

GIS/Visualization

Date Topic
April 10, 2019 Introduction to spatial data
April 17, 2019 Single-dataset GIS operations
April 24, 2019 Multi-dataset GIS operations pt 1
May 1, 2019 Multi-dataset GIS operations pt 2
May 8, 2019 R Markdown
May 15, 2019 Custom static and animated maps
May 22, 2019 Visualization with interactive maps
May 29, 2019 Interactive web maps with Shiny

Raster/Kriging

Date Topic
April 10, 2019 Introduction to raster data
April 17, 2019 Raster pt. 1
April 24, 2019 Raster pt. 2
May 1, 2019 Raster pt. 3
May 8, 2019 Interpolation pt. 1
May 15, 2019 Interpolation pt. 2
May 22, 2019 Interpolation pt. 3
May 29, 2019 Interpolation pt. 4