Final project

EVR 628- Intro to Environmental Data Science

Author

Affiliation

Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez (JC)

Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and Institute for Data Science and Computing

The big picture

Remember that the final goal is to have a GitHub repository where you can showcase your work. In assignment 1 you created the repository. Assignment two required you to develop one R script to clean some data in that same repository. For your third assignment, you visualized the data cleaned in assignment two. Your fourth and final assignment had you produce a map of your “study site”, broadly defined. This is now your final project, where you will combine everything you have produced into a communication product (presentation or a report). This final product is worth 10% of your final grade and is due on Dec 3 at 11:59 pm.

Your final project

Task: Use quarto markdown to produce a document (presentation or report) highlighting your results. Then, make sure your GitHub repository is organized, clean, and ready to be shared.

You should produce a quarto markdown document that meets the following:

• (10%) Is called final_report.qmd or final_presentation.qmd and is saved to your root directoryr. Presentations must use the revealjs output. Documents may be html or pdf.
• (10%) The YAML header includes:
  • A clear and concise title
  • A subtitle
  • Your full name
• (50%) Have the following section headers / slides: Introduction¹, Objective(s)², Data sources³, Data processing⁴, Main findings⁵, and References⁶. Each section should have a brief description. One paragraph may be enough, but feel free to write as much as you need to.
• (10%) You include at least two figures⁷:
  • One of those must be the map from Assignment 4. The other one may be one from Assignment 3, or a figure that you generate directly in the document.
  • All figures should include a figure caption.⁸
• (5%) You must use inline code at least once to present information from your data.
• (5%) No code or code-related warnings or messages appear in your final product.
• (5%) I can render your document without needing to modify your code.

Finally, for 5%, your README file includes a link to your final rendered document (that is, the html or the pdf file generated).

Footnotes

1. Your introduction should give your reader background information.

2. Your objective should state the question you seek to answer. You wrote something related to it in your README during Assignment 1.

3. Where do your data come from? How many data sets do you have? What are the types of variables included in your data?

4. How did you go from raw data to meeting your objectives? What filters or data modifications did your perform?

5. The answer to your questions

6. If you cite work, I suggest that you leverage quarto’s automatic referencing

7. Read more about figure sizing here.

8. If you are producing a PDF, you may want to read about figure position in quarto markdown’s documentation.