Syllabus

Coding Syllabus

1. Intro to R, RStudio and basic plotting

   • R versus RStudio
   • basic data types

2. Loading and plotting environmental data (1D and 2D)

   • Extract data for points
   • Extract and plot a time series?

3. Loading and plotting OBIS data (choose your species)

   • Select species, use R OBIS to fetch
   • Exploration and plotting of fetched data
   • Consider biases: spatial, seasonal, interannual

4. Extract environmental data

   • For observations
   • For background
   • Are variables colinear?

5. Model tuning / fitting & interpretation

   • Algorithm choice (one or many)
   • Skill metrics
   • K-folds
   • Response curves
   • Contribution of covariates

6. Make a prediction / projection

   • Nowcast
   • 2055 RCP 4.5
   • 2075 RCP 4.5
   • 2055 RCP 8.5
   • 2075 RCP 8.5