Week 2 videos

Starting with R and RStudio lecture

Some of these are pretty short; some of the later ones may also be helpful if you are confused about how to install packages or make simple maps with tmap.

Before you start

• Getting to the slides, and how they work… 1m18s

Introducing R and RStudio

• Overview of lecture 1m21s
• What R and RStudio are 3m27s
• Origins of R 2m15s
• Overview of RStudio interface 3m34s
• Some basic concepts in R 5m38s

Handling basic data in R

• Values, vectors and dataframes 4m37s
• More about dataframes 2m22s
• Manipulating values as single objects 3m18s
• Plotting data 4m56s

Packages including sf and tmap

• Installing and loading packages 6m27s
• Reading and plotting spatial data with sf 2m54s
• Making maps with tmap and wrap up 2m41s

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The limits of tidy data lecture

• Preamble 1m37s
• What is/are data? 4m17s
• Data-information-knowledge 5m39s
• Data feminism 6m12s
• A geographical perspective 8m17s
• In sum: data are messy 4m03s
• So anyhoo… tidy data 5m50s
• Spatial data types 6m44s
• Wrap 1m44s