R Workshop for the Pelagic Ecosystems Lab and Hakai Affiliates at UBC

January 21–22, 2019

9:00 a.m. – 4:30 pm

Instructors: Brett Johnson

Helpers:

General Information

Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing".

Who: This workshop is meant for graduate students and researchers from Dr. Brian Hunt's Pelagic Ecosystems Laboratory, as well as Hakai affiliated researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.

Where: Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory Rm. 107 on Monday and room 220 on Tuesday, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

When: January 21–22, 2019. Add to your Google Calendar.

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below). They are also required to abide by Data Carpentry's Code of Conduct.

Contact: Please email brett.johnson@hakai.org for more information.


Surveys

Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.

Pre-workshop Survey

Post-workshop Survey


Schedule

Day 1

Before starting Pre-workshop survey
Install, udpate, and setup (takes ~ 1 hour) everything noted here
Morning Project Oriented Workflow
AfternoonIntroduction to R
Evening END

Day 2

Morning Tidy Data in Spreadsheets
AfternoonData Analysis
Evening Post-workshop survey
END

Setup

You will need to update or install R, R-studio, and git. Please follow take ~ 1 hour to follow these instructions

Communications

We will use the Juvenile Salmon Slack Network for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code. Please sign-up for a free slack account and download the desktop or mobile app here.