Online Course Announcement: An Introduction to Making Graphs and Maps for Biologists using R, 25 to 28 March 2024
Colin MacLeod (GIS In Ecology)
In
March 2024, we will once again be running our instructor-led, online
course titled 'An Introduction to Making Graphs and Maps for
Biologists using R'.
This course will cover everything you
need to know to get started with making high quality visualisations
from biological data in R using a variety of packages, including
GGPlot (one of the most popular graphing packages used by
biologists). As with our previous courses, we will use a very
hands-on approach based around flow diagrams to help you learn how to
successfully make a wide variety of different types of graphs and
maps in a practical and meaningful way, regardless of whether or not
you have used R before.
This course will be held online via
the Zoom video-conferencing platform between the 25th and the 28th of
March 2024. It will cost £295, with a discounted rate of £245 for
students, the unwaged and those working for registered charities.
If
you are interested in registering for this course, you can do so
via the course's webpage at
http://gisinecology.com/live-online-course-an-introduction-to-making-graphs-and-maps-for-biologists-using-r/
to
get the discounted rate, just select this option when using the
payment button) or you can email us at in...@GISinEcology.com with the
subject line March
2024 Data Visualisation Course.
The
course will cover making graphs using the GGPlot package, making
frequency distribution graphs, making bar graphs of count data,
making graphs of summary statistics (such as mean values) with error
bars, making point graphs of summary statistics for two variables
with vertical and horizontal error bars, making box plots, making X-Y
scatter plots of individual data points, making line graphs of time
series data, making pair-plot matrices of environmental variables,
making pie charts, making bubble graphs, making mixed type graphs,
making simple X-Y plots of tracking data and making maps from
biological data in R. In addition, you will learn how to use a
variety of different R packages and how to create workflows for
making any type of graph, map or data visualisation in R.
The
course will consist of four three-hour sessions, and one session will
need to be completed each day. However, you will have a choice of
completing it between 10:00 and 13:00 UK Time (primarily for those
living in Europe, Asia and Africa) or 19:00 to 22:00 UK Time
(primarily for those living in North and South America). This choice
of time slots for each session allows participants from as wide a
range of time zones to participate in the course. Numbers are limited
to a maximum of 24 attendees per time slot.
As part of this
course, you will receive a free copy of our new book titled 'An
Intoduction to Making Graphs and Maps for Biologists using R', which
will be published this December, and as always, all those who attend
this course will receive a certificate of completion.
Specific
topics covered by the course are provided below. If you have any
questions about this course, please feel free to get in touch with us
at in...@GISinEcology.com.
Specific Topics This Course Will Cover:
An introduction to R and RStudio (and, if required, this will include help with installing these software packages).
What you need to know to get started with using R.
How to create your first graphs in R using GGPlot.
How to create graphs displaying groups of data with GGPlot.
How to create graphs displaying individual data points with GGPlot
How to create other types of graphs, including pie charts, bubble graphs, mixed type graphs and X-Y plots of tracking data.
How to create simple maps from biological data using R.
How to work out how to do things in R.
How to create an annotated R code archive so you have a record of what you have done.