Associate Professor of Global Environmental Change
Geography
Department
I Use R:
–Grolemund & Wickham, R for Data Science, O’Reilly 2016
This course is NOT a statistics course (see GEO 505, etc.).
Plan to spend approximately 5-11 hours each week:
R is a dialect of the S language developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T) by John Chambers et. al. (same group developed C and UNIX©)
Packages:
sf, sp, maptools, rgeos, raster, terra, ggmap
R can perform many GIS functions and workflows (often better than a GIS!).
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But there are other options…
Mac, Windows, Linux, and over the web…
Number of scholarly articles found in the most recent complete year (2018) for the more popular data science software. To be included, software must be used in at least 750 scholarly articles.
Graphical User Interfaces are useful, especially when you are learning…
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.
– Leo Cherne
For BIG jobs: multi-core processors / high performance computing with foreach.
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