The UC Nature Data Science Essentials program provides a practical introduction to data management, manipulation, and analysis. By the end of the course, students will be proficient in importing data into R, performing analysis, and presenting the results.
Remote learning
- Asynchronous video lectures
- Weekly problem sets
- Weekly 1.5-hour discussion sections led by near-peer mentors over Zoom
- Optional office hours over Zoom
- Capstone project using a regional dataset (group project)
- Lighting talk presentations of results
- Optional opportunity to present findings at a program symposium
Schedule
- Week 1 – Introduction to R and RStudio
- Week 2 – Introduction to R, Starting with Data
- Week 3 – Manipulating Data
- Week 4 – Manipulating Data
- Week 5 – Data Visualization
- Week 6+ – Final Presentations