Instructor Notes

Optionally, to stimulate engagement, the workshop can be run as a competition, as follows:

Instructors form groups of 4-6 participants.
Each group chooses a city name.
Groups that solve a challenge or solve it first, receive a star. Stars are cumulated across lessons.
At the end of the workshop, the team with most stars receives a prize.

Notes:

The competition is not individual and the take-away is that everyone wins.
Awarding stars needs to be fair (i.e., with clear rules on how they are given) and balanced (i.e., when there’s a tie, the instructor can choose to award the team with less stars).
It is important to form diverse groups with a good mix of experiences, backgrounds, gender.
Stars can be collected on a flipover in front of the room where everyone can see it.

Introduction to R and RStudioProject management in RStudio Introduction to R

Instructor Note

In interest of time, focus on one way of creating the folders. You can showcase an alternative method with just one example.

Once you have finished, ask the participants if they have managed to create a R Project and get the same folder structure. To do this, use green and red stickers.

This will become important, as we use relative paths together with here package to read and write objects.

Exploring Data Frames & Data frame Manipulation with dplyrExploring Data frames Data frame Manipulation with dplyr

Introduction to visualisationIntroduction to Visualisation Writing data

Introduction to Geospatial Concepts

Make sure that the sf package and its dependencies are installed before the workshop. The installation can be lengthy, so allocate enough extra time before the workshop for solving installation problems. We recommend one or two installation ‘walk-in’ hours on a day before the workshop. Also, 15-30 minutes at the beginning of the first workshop day should be enough to tackle last-minute installation issues.