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