This repository provides materials for a session that is part of the I2DS Tools for Data Science workshop run at the Hertie School, Berlin Berlin in November 2021. The student-run workshop is part of the course Introduction to Data Science taught by Simon Munzert at the Hertie School, Berlin, in Fall 2021.

This workshop-session you new insights into working with Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) in R. These systems are central when working with data related to the surface of the earth and other geographic elements. Besides this, sf builds also the foundations of creating nice maps based on geographic data points.

You can access our exercise file here.

The goals of this workshop are to

1. introduce you to CRS foundations and its application in R,
2. try out simple data operations and visualizations with sf, and
3. provide you with some practice material as well as some further resources.

• Lisa Pramann (linkedin, twitter)
• Caitlin Sarro (linkedin)

• CRS Bookchapter in the Geocomputation with R
• Presentation Tidy Spatial Data Analysis 2018
• Blog WZB 2019 - Zooming in on maps with sf and ggplot2
• sf Cheat Sheet

The material in this repository is made available under the MIT license.

Caitlin Sarro prepared and formatted the presentation slides and concentrated on the key features of sf. Lisa Pramann prepared and formatted the .readme and the exercises in the .rmd-file and focused on the spatial data operations. The video was recorded jointly.