ENVIRON 175
Programming with Big Environmental Datasets
Gleb Satyukov
Senior Research Engineer | Data Science Instructor
Teaching Team
Instructor: Gleb Satyukov
Teahing Assistant: Kaitlynn Sandstrom-Mistry
When and Where
Gleb's Office Hours
Wednesdays between 5pm and 6pm on Zoom
Fridays between 3pm and 4pm on Zoom
Gleb’s personal Zoom link is: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/6935808910
Kaitlynn's Office Hours
Mondays between 12pm (noon) and 1pm
Wednesdays between 11am and 12pm (noon)
Kaitlynn’s personal Zoom link is: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/8321830416
About Me
Academic Background
- Computational Linguistics
- Human-Computer Interaction
Research Interests
- Design and development of distributed systems
- Web scraping, UI/UX, applied ML
- Data analysis and visualization
Recent Projects
- SAGE, KGTK, MCS, PIRANHA, INCAS, VENICE, .....
Useful links
Software that we are going to be using in this class:
These slides are available at:
https://environ-175.com/slides/<number 1 thru 10>
Course Syllabus
History of R
R is a programming language for statistical computing and data visualization. It's been adopted in the fields of data mining, bioinformatics and data analysis.
Designed by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman
Based on another language for stats called S
Standards
R Studio
Protip
Use keyboard shortcuts!
https://docs.posit.co/ide/user/ide/reference/shortcuts.html
https://support.posit.co/hc/en-us/articles/200711853-Keyboard-Shortcuts-in-the-RStudio-IDE
R Studio Cheat Sheet
Packages
CRAN Task Views
CRAN task views aim to provide guidance which packages on CRAN are relevant for tasks related to a certain topic.
R vs Python
Both language are easier to learn (e.g. than C or Java)
Python is used more to build full-scale web applications
R is targeted more for data science, and getting to analyze visualizations quickly
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