Session content
Monday - 16th May - 15:00 - 19:00 (Berlin time): live lectures and introduction to / review of the practicals
4 additional hours: self-guided practicals using annotated scripts, with live remote support between sessions
- Geocomputation introduction
- Why R?
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- … other tools
- R’s spatial ecosystem
- Geographic data in R
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- Vector
- Raster
- Misc.
- Geographical foundations
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- CRS
- Basic data operations
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- Sneak peak your data (plot)
- Subsetting spatial data
- Aggregating and Disaggregating spatial data
- Summarizing objects
Wednesday - 18th May - 15:00 - 18:00 (Berlin time): live lectures and introduction to / review of the practicals
4 additional hours: self-guided practicals using annotated scripts, with live remote support between sessions
- Spatial data operations
- Vector
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- Relations, Joins
- Raster
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- Algebra, Focal and Zonal Operations
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- Geometry operations
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- Vector
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- Simplification
- Buffer
- Centroids
- Shift, Scale, Rotate
- Clipping / Union
- Type conversion
- Raster
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- Resolution and extent
- Resampling
- Raster + Vector interactions
Friday - 20th May - 15:00 - 18:00 (Berlin time): live lectures and introduction to / review of the practicals
4 additional hours: self-guided practicals using annotated scripts, with live remote support between sessions
- Geographic data I/O
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- Where to find open spatial data?
- How to get spatial data
- Overview of file formats
- Output spatial data
- Bridges to other GIS software
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- Short intro in other GIS software
- Focus on QGIS
- Tackling student questions and own datasets
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- If there are none, we will go on with some first steps into analysing spatial data
Tuesday - 24th May - 15:00 - 18:00 (Berlin time): live lectures and introduction to / review of the practicals
4 additional hours: self-guided practicals using annotated scripts, with live remote support between sessions
- Mapping vector and raster data with ggplot
- Layers
- Cropping, zooming and clipping
- Changing projections when plotting
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Simplifying for
prototyping
- Showing data on a map
- Mapping variables to color, fill, alpha
- Choropleth maps
- Cartograms
- Heat maps
- Faceting
Thursday- 26th May - 15:00 - 18:00 (Berlin time): live lectures and introduction to / review of the practicals
4 additional hours: self-guided practicals using annotated scripts, with live remote support between sessions
- Using color in maps
- Color schemes
- Palettes
- Adding text
- Adding and modifying the title and legend
- Adding labels and annotations
- Other mapping packages
- Static maps
- Interactive and animated maps
- 3D maps
- Exporting formats