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 CU Boulder CIRES Earth Lab
 
-However, a basic level of coding ability will be required to attend  the Forest Carbon Codefest, such that any given participant can (in the coding language of their choosing): i) open and plot tabular and geospatial data, ii) compute summary statistics or create basic statistical models, and iii) create simple data visualizations.
+A basic level of coding ability will be required to attend the Forest Carbon Codefest, such that any given participant can (in the coding language of their choosing): i) open and plot tabular and geospatial data, ii) compute summary statistics or create basic statistical models, and iii) create simple data visualizations.
 
-This markdown contains examples of a few graphics that participants would be expected to be able to create at the beginning of the Forest Carbon Codfest, as well as an example of the code used to create them.
+Not sure what that means? This markdown contains a few example graphics; you should be able to create something similar, if given the appropriate data. Note that while this example is in R, similar ability in any coding language is sufficient!
 
 ## SETUP