REU Workshop: Data Wrangling

Organizer, moderator, and co-instructor of a three-day workshop covering data management techniques and an introduction to R. Audience was undergraduate students in the CEREO FEW REU. Sessions took place over Zoom from June 07-09, 2021. The syllabus was based on Data Carpentry for Ecology, with modifications specific to the context of the REU.

Topics covered:
  • Introduction to Data-Intensive Research and Public Data Resources
  • Introduction to Spreadsheets
  • Managing and Cleaning Data Reproducibly
  • Introduction to R
  • Data Organization with R
  • Basic Data Analysis in R
  • Data Visualization in R
  • Documenting Research with R
Matthew Brousil
Matthew Brousil
Data Scientist