Spatial Data Science with Applications in R

There will be refreshments and networking from 18h00.

Agenda
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We will be working through Spatial Data Science with Applications in R by Edzer Pebesma and Roger Bivand over 3 meetups.

You can find the book online here: https://r-spatial.org/book/

We will mostly leave Chapters 1 – 6 as self-study, but we will recap them in the first session. We also ask that you work through the discussion chapters before the meetups if you can.

Part 1 – 13 February 2024

Recap of Chapters 1 – 6
Discussion of Chapters 7 – 9

* Meeting start at 18h30
* 18h30 - 18h55 Welcome and News - Luis de Sousa
* 19h00 - 19h55 Spatial Data Science - Handre Williams

• 1 Getting Started
• 2 Coordinates
• 3 Geometries
• 4 Spherical Geometries
• 5 Attributes and Support
• 6 Data Cubes
• 7 Introduction to sf and stars
• 8 Plotting spatial data
• 9 Large data and cloud native
• Questions

* Meeting finish at 20h00

Details
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When: 13 February 2024 @ 18h30 to 20h00 (GMT+2)
Where: Microsoft Campus in Bryanston, South Africa
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/4ffcC3N6T7S2

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