Course topics

Week	Discussion topic	Code topic	Open EDS topic	Viz topic	Analytics topic	SciComm topic	Case study
1	FAIR and CARE data principles	Markdown	Organization and Version control	Include external images	N/A	EDS Professional bio	Professional portfolio website
2	X	Names and Lists	Time-series	Line plots, grammar of graphics, labels	(generalized) linear models	Assertions/headlines	Climate change with NCEI Climate at a Glance
3	Stationarity is dead	mapping Functions	Units and conversions	Annotating and customizing plots	Exceedance probability	Describing plots	Flooding with USGS NWIS
4-5	AI-assisted coding	Group by and aggregate	Raster data	Before/after sliders	Change mapping	Messaging	pre/post-wildfire NDVI for the Camp Fire
6		Tidy data and (temporal) joins	Time series data harmonization / resampling	Scatterplots and other multi-series displays	Correlation and lagged correlation	Writing about assumptions and inference	Urban flooding - impermeable surfaces decrease time of concentration (Phoenix or Tuscon? Somewhere with a lot of recent growth)
5	Who decides what goes on maps? from Data Feminism	(spatial) joins	Vector data	Interactive maps	Compute lengths and areas	Site descriptions	Building site maps with Natural Earth Data
7	Equity in ground truth	Loops	Work with multi-file datasets (with limited storage)	Spatiotemporal data	Animations/videos	(practice)	basic image processing (extract fire date and size)
8		Functions	Work with multi-file datasets	True color images	Spatiotemporal dashboards	Classification models	(practice)
9		DataFrames	Work with multi-file datasets	False color images		change detection/hockey stick	(practice)
10		Objects	APIs	Spectral indices			(practice)
11		Objects	Spatial harmonization				(practice)
12							Flex week
13							Final project -
14							Final project
15							Final project