In the Summer of 2021, I took an introductory programming course called Introduction to Programming for GIS. It is an understatement to say that this was not easy work in any way! Although there were a lot of course concepts that took me awhile to understand (and many concepts I am still getting the hang of), I got a lot out of the class, and the skills I learned will be very valuable in the future. Here are some of the assignments I have worked on:
- In this assignment I built a website to show my GIS Work
- This project has a github repo as well where you can see the code.
- All of this was completed in R Studio.
- In this lab, I practiced reading in COVID-19 data from the New York Times
- I figured out how to join two data sets in order to display the data in a variety of ways.
- I also learned how to manipulate the data and express my results as a plotted graph or table.
- In Lab 3, I calculated the distance from US cities to the United States Border and neighboring countries.
- I became more familiar with utilizing MULTIPOLYGON and MULTILINESTRING geometries.
- Although the sf package was hard to download due to slow internet, I was eventually able to get it downloaded so that I could familiarize myself with the features within sf.
- This lab was tricky!
- Despite numerous challenges, I was able to become more comfortable making voronoi and triangulated tessellations, as well as square and hexagonal grids.
- This is useful because it allows for numerous ways to spatially display data on a map, and do so in a way that doesn’t gerrymander the data into awkward portions of a given region.
- I also practiced using point-in-polygons and grepl to show data on US dams and their main uses.