Workshop - Big Data Ecology

This workshop was initially developed for graduate students of the BioMove Research Training Group and is made available for re-use and adaptation in other contexts.

Objectives:

• Acquire a detailed overview of modern standards and methods in data-driven ecological research
• Gain practical experience in working with heterogeneous ecological datasets, databases, code versioning, optimization, parallel processing and data visualization
• Be able to develop and carry out your own data-centered research projects with a view on time efficiency, reproducibility and collaboration

Prerequisites:

• Familiarity with the R Statistical Programming Environment
• Current Version of RStudio (> v1.4) and R (> v4.0)
• Local Git installation and access to an online Git hosting platform such as GitHub or GitLab

Duration: 2.5 days, 8 blocks, 1.5h each

Target audience: Advanced Master's students and PhD candidates in quantitative branches ecology and biodiversity science

Number of participants: max. 15

License CC-BY-4.0

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