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Coding with Open Data from Environmental Reporting BC

In this repo, we'll develop a collection of lessons based on the data and code that Environmental Reporting BC has released.

Content Guidelines:

Skill focus: each lesson should focus on helping learners gain a skill they'll need to work with the data and code released by BC, and enable learners to transfer those skills to other projects.
Lesson Format: anything goes! But if you're looking for some guidance, consider:
Study group lesson: a one hour hands-on tutorial, designed to be led by an instructor
Workshop lesson: like the study group, but longer.
Self-study curriculum: a tutorial designed to be followed by an independent learner.
Content Format: keep it as simple and dependency-free as possible. Markdown or plain text for text; IPython Notebooks or knitr scripts are good options, too!

Contributing:

Please place your lesson in its own folder, and make sure everything needed (scripts, pointers to data or other code etc) are included and clearly labeled in your lesson folder.

Feel free to start brainstorming lesson ideas in the issue tracker before you begin!

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Potential datasets

Just to highlight a few potential datasets that are all available under the BC Open Government License:

Grizzly Bears

Mortality history since 1976 broken down by management unit, age, sex
2012 Population estimates for different management/population units
Grizzly bear Population units and Wildlife Management units (spatial)
For reference, Environmental Reporting BC's 2012 indicator

Air quality

long term monitoring data (hourly readings) for many pollutants - these are reasonably large files that, while they easily fit into memory, do require some care in munging with reasonable performance. Might be not a bad test case for a lesson on optimising code. Monitoring station information is also there (a bit messy though)

Groundwater

monthly average groundwater levels
Groundwater well locations (spatial)
R package and analysis for the indicator developed by Environmental Reporting BC (Note: my first package - don't use it as an example to teach from 😜 )