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Royal Statistical Society

Spatial Data Analysis in R

Who is this course for?

Participants with spatial data problems who are not making use of R and are falling behind in the ever changing world of data science.

What will I learn?

As spatial data sets get larger, more sophisticated software needs to be harnessed for their analysis. R is now a widely used open source software platform for working with spatial data thanks to its powerful analysis and visualisation packages. 

Topics Covered
- Introducing R as a GIS
- The structure of spatial objects in R
- Loading and interrogating spatial data
- Visualisaing spatial datasets with tmap
- Data manipulation with spatial data using dplyr
- Spatial joins
- Coordinate reference systems (CRS)
- Interactive maps with leaflet

Skills tags:

  • data
  • R
  • programming
  • maps