Environmental Data Analysis and Visualization

The Data Goes On and On (and On and On)…

Visualization critique

Pew Research

Visualization critique

NY Times

Visualization critique

globalchange.com

Visualization critique

  • Meredith

  • Griffin

  • Charlotte

Dataset of the day

Massachusetts Community Health Data

Mass.gov

Raster data

Rasters are used to represent spatial information that has a continuous distribution.

datacarpentry.org

What kind of data comes as a raster?

  • Satellite imagery

  • Climate model outputs

  • Oceanographic data

  • Elevation models

Raster algebra

Raster cells contain values that can be combined with cell values of other rasters at the same locations to produce a new raster

Raster data in R

  • Faster and easier than earlier raster package

  • Extends to ggplot2 and dplyr with the tidyterra package

Next week

  • Plotting out your projects

  • Postering 101

  • From tests to predictions