DATA 431 - Spatial Data Discovery | |||||
Fall 2021 | |||||
(updated 2021-11-01) | |||||
Week | Date | Topic | Readings and Activities | Task/Assignment | Note |
1 | Wed, Sep 1, 2021 | GETTING STARTED • spatial discovery • discuss expectations • software & communications | READING: Goldsberry (2013) ACTIVITY: Join GitHub team - F21 Developers | Complete FWOC survey and checklist JOURNAL 1: Getting Started QUIZ 1 | First day of class |
2 | Mon, Sep 6, 2021 | SUSTAINABLE AUTHORSHIP • plain text • intro to markdown and git • navigating GitHub • environments & repo cloning | LEARNING: Git ACTIVITY: Rendering Markdown (StackEdit.io) REVIEW: Repository Cloning READING: Tenen & Wythoff (2014) | ||
Wed, Sep 8, 2021 | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH • discussions & work log • workflows in Git • issues and branching | READING: Lowndes et al. (2017) reading: Pandoc Markdown (RStudio) reading: Pandoc manual | The "About" Page • see Issue 69 - first Draft for next week DISC 2: Sustainable Authorship JOURNAL 2: What is spatial? QUIZ 2 | Add/drop deadline (9/10) | |
3 | Mon, Sep 13, 2021 | **NO CLASS**
ACTIVITY: Work on utility scripts / podcast | Create utility script Update "About" Page • see Issue 72 Create <5 min podcast • see Issue 73 | ||
Wed, Sep 15, 2021 | UTILITY SCRIPT • link commit message to issue • code blocks in markdown • md + pandoc = html | DEMO: Utility Script reading: Mastering Issues | JOURNAL 3: What is utility? QUIZ 3 | Meet on Zoom Remote office hours this week | |
4 | Mon, Sep 20, 2021 | SPATIAL PROBLEMS • data availability • geospatial ethics | ACTIVITY: Google Earth READING: Schwarze (2015) | (be sure to update after activity) | |
Wed, Sep 22, 2021 | VECTOR DATA • GeoJSON format (vector) • coordinate reference systems | SANDBOX 2: Where in the World? Challenge | JOURNAL 4: What is spatial data? QUIZ 4 | ||
5 | Mon, Sep 27, 2021 | RASTER DATA • ASCII format (raster) | READING: Esri ASCII Raster format SANDBOX 3: Creating the .asc Raster VIDEO: The Raster Data Model | Share / discuss sandbox 2 solutions. | |
Wed, Sep 29, 2021 | READING: §2, pp.21–25, Koops & Galič (2017) ACTIVITY: A day in the life DEMO: The ASCII Raster SANDBOX 4: Checking the .asc Format | JOURNAL 5: What spaces / places? QUIZ 5 Install QGIS for next week (see blog) | |||
6 | Mon, Oct 4, 2021 | GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION • intro to QGIS • layouts in QGIS | DEMO: QGIS READING: Intro to GIS VIDEO: Intro to QGIS reading: QGIS Print Layout | ||
Wed, Oct 6, 2021 | ACTIVITY: Visualizing ASCII raster data | • discuss solutions to Sandbox 4 JOURNAL 6: How does it look? QUIZ 6 | |||
7 | Mon, Oct 11, 2021 | SPATIAL STATISTICS & GAP FILLING | ACTIVITY: The Sparse Data Challenge READING: Sarafanov et al. (2020) * see introduction for a highlight of methods | ||
Wed, Oct 13, 2021 | **NO CLASS** Work on Sparse Data Solution & Post Methods to Discussion | JOURNAL 7: What's the process? QUIZ 7 | |||
8 | Mon, Oct 18, 2021 | **NO CLASS** | Fall Break (10/16--10/19) | ||
Wed, Oct 20, 2021 | ACTIVITY: The Four V's READING: de La Beaujardiere (2019) | DISC 8: Geospatial Data Science JOURNAL 8: What's the challenge? QUIZ 8 | |||
9 | Mon, Oct 25, 2021 | HIERARCHICAL DATA • data repositories • data formats • intro to HDF5 | LEARNING: HDF ACTIVITY: Create an Earthdata account reading: MODIS Web reading: MODIS Overview REFERENCE: Data Pool VIDEO: LP DAAC | MIDTERM GRADING PERIOD (10/11-10/31) * based on quizzes (1-7), discussions (1-7), and reports (1-7) | |
Wed, Oct 27, 2021 | SANDBOX 5: HDF5 to ASCII Conversion VIDEO: Intro to HDF5 | JOURNAL 9: What attributes? QUIZ 9 | |||
10 | Mon, Nov 1, 2021 | NETWORK COMMON DATA • intro to NetCDF | LEARNING: NetCDF ACTIVITY: Exploring NetCDF data REFERENCE: The NetCDF Data Model REFERENCE: Scipy.io.netcdf | Withdraw deadline | |
Wed, Nov 3, 2021 | SANDBOX 6: ASCII to NetCDF Conversion VIDEO: Intro to NetCDF | JOURNAL 10: What dimensions? QUIZ 10 | |||
11 | Mon, Nov 8, 2021 | YOUR DISCOVERY | |||
Wed, Nov 10, 2021 | READING: Eibl & Engel (2015) | DISC 11: Granularity JOURNAL 11: What's the resolution? QUIZ 11 | |||
12 | Mon, Nov 15, 2021 | PROJECT WORK DAY | Schedule adj period (11/15--12/10) | ||
Wed, Nov 17, 2021 | READING: Wilkinson (2016) | DISC 12: FAIR Data JOURNAL 12: What's the importance? QUIZ 12 | |||
13 | Mon, Nov 22, 2021 | PROJECT WORK DAY | Spatial Discovery - .Rmd Draft 1 Due DISC 13: Data Models JOURNAL 13: What formats? QUIZ 13 | ||
Wed, Nov 24, 2021 | **NO CLASS** | Thanksgiving (11/24--11/28) | |||
14 | Mon, Nov 29, 2021 | IN-CLASS WORKDAY | VIDEO: Animating Data (GIMP and FFmpeg) | ||
Wed, Dec 1, 2021 | READING: A VerySpatial Podcast | DISC 14: VerySpatial JOURNAL 14 QUIZ 14 | |||
15 | Mon, Dec 6, 2021 | PROJECT WORK DAY * office hours in Swem 213 | |||
Wed, Dec 8, 2021 | IN-CLASS WORKDAY | READING: Bacastow & Bellafiore (2009) READING: Herring et al. (2020) | DISC 15: GeoInt JOURNAL 15 QUIZ 15 | #LDOC (12/10) | |
* days highlighted in light orange TBD | ** items in italics are supplemental if you are interested in learning more | ||||
Tue, Dec 21, 2021 | FINAL 1400-1700 | Final Exam + Discovery Project due | |||