Introduce R to your other friends (or using R as a component in workflows)
Regular talk, 1:30 - 2:30 PM
R scripts are great tools to use as steps in simple and complex workflows. Why try to build a customized database output when you can take a standard output and use R to customize to your heart’s content? Just use R for data cleanup and reformatting as you prep data for a database or to feed into a model. Combine automated QC and human QC in workflows to get the best of both worlds. Let each of your tools do what it does best. This presentation will cover a couple examples of R being friends with databases GIS humans Excel and even (gasp!) Python. Use simple R scripts to help speed up routine workflows like prepping data to load to databases or aggregating database outputs for reporting. Compile and combine timeseries datasets reference datasets and discrete sample data to automate the tedious data processing and QA/QC steps but leave the visual interpretation and fine-tuning to the human. Write custom functions to calculate floodplain widths that plug into GIS models by letting R hold hands with ArcGIS. Let all your tools shine and join the party!
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Pronouns: she/herBellingham, WA, USAHanna Winter is an Environmental Data Scientist at Geosyntec Consultants in Bellingham, WA, where she uses R for data wrangling, data visualization, and statistical analysis for water resources and environmental remediation projects. She enjoys speeding up the pipeline from data gathering to decision making using R and developing scripted solutions to repetitive tasks for data management. |