Syllabus



Date Module Data Topics Read Homework
Week 1 home Course design, goals, introduction, and setup
MODULE 1: an introduction to computing in R
Week 2 git/GitHub
Week 3 R and R markdown
Week 4 Visualization basics
MODULE 2: host-virus associations
Week 5 An intro to VIRION and strings
Week 6 Data manipulation (base + plyr/dplyr) + CI
MODULE 3: species distribution modeling
Week 7 my_location Intro to APIs and spatial data
Week 8 my_location Visualizing and modelling species occurrence data + Docker
Spring break --- ---
Week 10 my_location Making informed models + model performance
MODULE 4: ecological simulation
Week 11 satellite Intro to simulation, looping and apply
Week 12 satellite lists and parallelization
Week 13 satellite Probabilistic processes
Week 14 face Wrap up and big picture
FINAL PROJECTS
Week 15 school Final Project presentations
Week 15 (GIVE ACTUAL DATE HERE) school Final Projects DUE