2016-01-20
Introduction
Environmental Informatics
manipulating information to solve environmental problems
Data Science - Venn
Data Science - Sequence
Data Science - Sequence for R
Motivating example: Ocean Health Index
previously, one person curating all data & code, a bottleneck to many scientists inputting ideas
needed to open it up for use internally, eg ohi-science
next, make available to whole world, eg subcountry
now see Github + Rmarkdown widely used, eg in refs
Github Workflow
Each week, you'll fork ucsb-bren's repository to your Github user space, clone it to your local machine to make changes, before making a pull request to turn it in.
github.com/ucsb-bren/[repo] (org, web) |
github.com/[user]/[repo] (you, web) |
~/github/[repo] (you, local) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| fork | clone | ||
| commit | |||
| branch | |||
| merge | pull request | push |
Flagology
Regularly:
red: Help!
green: Ready for next step
Today for Group Project Discussion:
yellow: Individual – name, github username, program
blue: Project ideas
Feedback
- Forum at env-info.slack.com - need to be invited by @bbest
- Feedback using Google Forms
- Issues for
ucsb-bren/env-info
Setup
setup: install and configure R, Rstudio, Git, Github