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Wiss. Koordination

Alisa Remizova

Administrative Koordination

Janina Götsche

Introduction to Geospatial Techniques for Social Scientists in R

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Veranstaltungsort:
Cologne / Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
 
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Fees:
Students: 220 €
Academics: 330 €
Commercial: 660 €
 
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Dozierende: Stefan Jünger, Anne-Kathrin Stroppe

Referenteninformationen - Stefan Jünger

Referenteninformationen - Anne-Kathrin Stroppe

Seminarinhalt

In recent years, many researchers have renewed interest in the spatially integrated social sciences, following the call for a 'spatial turn' among plenty of its subdisciplines. However, to process, visualize, and analyze geospatial data, social scientists must first be trained in specialized tools called Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The good news is: While this may have been an unacquainted undertaking until recently, the familiar open-source statistical language R can now serve as a full-blown GIS for many research applications.
This course will teach its participants how to exploit R to apply its geospatial techniques in a social science context. We will learn about the most common data formats, their characteristics, and their applications. Most importantly, the course will present available data sources and how to get data and process them for further analysis. These steps involve essential geospatial operations, such as cropping, aggregating, or linking data, and they are the first fundamental steps of modeling and assessing spatial interdependence. The course will be hands-on, so it also includes one of the most rewarding tasks of working with geospatial data: visualizing them through maps.
 
Please be aware that a major event is set to begin on April 10, so be sure to book your accommodation well in advance!
 
Organisational structure of the course
The best way to learn new things in R is to try things out and apply the presented concepts. Therefore, we will have a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. More specifically, each topic will be introduced in a lecture by the instructors. Participants will then receive a set of exercises on each topic. The solution to the exercises will be discussed before the start of the next lecture part.


Zielgruppe

Participants will find the course useful if:
  • They are intermediate or advanced users of R who want to learn (more) about geospatial data, their use and analysis, and the creation of maps


  • Lernziel

    By the end of the course, participants will:
  • learn how to process geospatial data in R using the most recent packages and routines available
  • be familiar with the different data formats and structures
  • be able to create maps
  • feel comfortable exploiting geospatial data in R for their own (research) purposes
  • have the skill to take their first steps in assessing spatial interdependence


  • Voraussetzungen

  • Knowledge of R, its syntax, and internal logic
  • Affinity for using script-based languages (R, Stata, Python)
  • Interest in wrangling complex data structures
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    Software and hardware requirements
    R and RStudio. A list of packages will be provided in the weeks before the workshop.


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