Lecture-01 - Course Introduction

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Topics

  • GIScience - What are GIS and GISc?
  • Data Management - Intro to R and RStudio
  • Data Visualization - What Makes a Good Map, leaflet
  • Analysis Development - Workflows

Readings

Required

  • Goodchild, Michael. 2010. “Twenty years of progress: GIScience in 2010.” Journal of Spatial Information Science 1(1):3-20. (Link)
  • Logan, John. 2010. “Making a place for space: Spatial thinking in social science.” Annual Review of Sociology 38:507-524. (Link)
  • R4DS:
    • Print - Preface or
    • Web - Chapter 1 (Link)

Optional

  • Wilson, Greg, Jennifer Bryan, Karen Cranston, Justin Kitzes, Lex Nederbragt, and Tracy Teal. 2017. “Good enough practices in scientific computing.” PLoS Computational Niology 13(6):e1005510. (Electronic Reserves)

Assignments

Due Before Lecture

  • eTicket-01