Module 1 - Getting Started

Meeting 1-1 - Monday, January 24 - Course Introduction

  • Before Class:
    • Complete the Course Onboarding tasks (see Canvas - Modules > Course Onboarding)
    • Complete the Meeting 01 preparatory readings, videos, and entry ticket
      • Coral, Lilian. 2016. “City of Los Angeles GeoHub.” Presented at the ESRI User Conference, San Diego, CA. (Link)
      • Parker, Hilary. 2017. “Opinionated analysis development.” Presented at rstudio::conf, Orlando, FL. (Link)
      • Healy, Kieran. 2018. “Introduction.” In The plain person’s guide to plain text. (Link)
      • Entry Ticket 1-1 (Link)
  • After Class:
    • Complete Lab 1-1 - A Simple Interactive Map (GitHub)
    • Read through the Final Project instructions (Link) and draft your initial memo (Canvas)
  • Optional Additional Readings:
    • 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)
    • Parker Hilary. 2017. “Opinionated analysis development.” PeerJ Preprints 5:e3210v1. (Link)
    • Thieme, Nick. 2018. “R generation.” Significance 15(4):14-19. (Link)

Meeting 1-2 - Monday, January 31 - Map Production Basics

  • Before Class:
    • From prior meetings:
      • Complete Lab 1-1 from last week
    • For this meeting:
      • Prep Video A - Analysis Development (Canvas)
      • Prep Video B - Cartography Basics (Canvas)
      • Read through the Final Project instructions (Link) and draft your initial memo (Canvas)
      • Entry Ticket 1-2 (Canvas)
  • After Class:
    • Complete Lab 1-2 (GitHub)
    • Follow-up with Chris in your Final Project repo about any outstanding memo questions
  • Optional Additional Readings:
    • Wickham, Hadley. “Workflow: Projects.” R for Data Science. (Link)
    • Wilson, Greg, Jennifer Bryan, Karen Cranston, Justin Kitzes, Lex Nederbragt, and Tracy Teal. 2017. “Good enough practices in scientific computing.” PLoS Computational Biology 13(6):e1005510. (Link)

Meeting 1-3 - Monday, February 7 - Cartography 101

  • Before Class:
    • From prior meetings:
      • Complete Lab 1-2 from last week
    • For this meeting:
      • Prep Video A - Visual Contrast (Canvas)
      • Prep Video B - Color Theory (Canvas)
      • Prep Video C - Working with Color (Canvas)
      • Brewer, Designing Better Maps, Chapters 7 and 8
      • Entry Ticket 1-3 (Canvas)
  • After Class: