Calendar.md

Calendar 📆

Date	Topics	Materials
Week 1
October 9	Join the Sloth Squad! R set-up Questions for Dr. Blair	R Set-up - slides Dr. Blair's website Dr. Blair - Scientist at Work
October 11	Meet Dr. Mary Blair! Project Overview	Questions for Dr. Blair Project Overview - slides
Week 2
October 16	Digging into R+GitHub 🍴 Introduction to R	Forking in GitHub and RStudio Happy Git with R Introduction to R - RMarkdown
October 18	Going outside! - GPS exploration Syncing a fork Introduction to spatial data in R	GPS collection instructions GPS R Markdown
Week 3
October 23	Syncing a fork - review GPS in R continued	GitHub Help: syncing a fork GPS R Markdown
October 25	Hall of Biodiversity scavenger hunt What is GBIF?	GBIF website
Week 4
October 30 🎃Halloween Eve🍫	UFO(+R) 👽	UFO R Markdown
November 1	ggplot2 tutorial UFO(+R) continued spocc package	ggplot2 tutorial and tutorial notes ggplot2 Cheatsheet spocc package tutorial
Week 5
November 6 🇺🇸 Election Day 🇺🇸	No internship session today	Code in politics (and life) - FiveThirtyEight
November 8	Finish spocc tutorial Fast facts about sloths	Sloth slides
Week 6
November 13	Subsetting data Lines and polygons - Introduction	Sloth data cleaning - part 1 Return to GPS
November 15	Lines and polygons (continued) Questions for Julia Tejada	Sloth data cleaning - part 2 Questions for Julia Tejada
Week 7
November 20	Meet Julia Tejada! Data cleaning workflow	Data cleaning script
November 22 🍗Thanksgiving🍁	No internship session today
Week 8
November 27	Data cleaning workflow (continued) Presentation brainstorm	Presentation brainstorm
November 29	Louise is visiting! Introduction to spatial thinning spThin tutorial	Intro to spatial thinning -- slides Sloth data cleaning - part 3
Week 9
December 4	Polygon overlaps Wrap up spatial thinning Code troubleshooting	Polygon overlap revisited
December 6	Code debugging 🐜	Code troubleshooting - slides
Week 10
December 11	Finish debugging Work on presentations	SlothSquad Winter Presentation - Slides Code summary by Ula
December 13	Community building Work on presentations
Week 11
December 18	Work on presentations
December 20	Winter Presentations!
Winter Recess ⛄	December 24-January 1
Week 12
January 3	File path game	File path game instructions
Week 13
January 8	Git and goals! Gift exchange 🎁 Introduction to rasters raster package tutorial What is WorldClim?	Intro to rasters - slides raster tutorial WorldClim website: Data format & Bioclimatic variables
January 10	WorldClim in R 🌎 Introduction to machine learning	WorldClim in R - RMarkdown Intro to machine learning - slides
Week 14
January 15	Introduction to machine learning (continued) Machine learning in the real world	Machine learning articles
January 17	Hello machine learning project - supervised learning	Iris machine learning project - slides Hello machine learning! - RMarkdown
Week 15
January 22	Louise is visiting! Supervised learning continued Hello machine learning - unsupervised learning	Unsupervised learning - RMarkdown
January 24	Sloth skull machine learning - supervised learning 💀	Sloth skull project - slides Sloth skull project - R script
Week 16
January 29	Types of supervised learning Sloth skull machine learning - supervised learning (continued) Questions for Alexandra Matos	Supervised learning algorithms - slides Questions for Alexandra Matos
January 31	Internships canceled 🌡️
Week 17
February 5	No internship session today
February 7	Meet Alexandra Matos Wrap up sloth skull machine learning
February 8	Hackathon! 🚀
February 9	Hackathon! ☀️
Week 18
February 10	Hackathon! 🌕
February 12	No internship session today
February 14 😍Valentine's Day❤️	Wrap up sloth skull machine learning An R Valentine 💌 Machine learning activity! Questions for Allison Parrish	Machine learning activity worksheet R Valentine RMarkdown Questions for Allison Parrish
Mid-Winter Recess	❄️ February 18-22 ⛄
Week 19
February 26	Resume Workshop
February 28	HTML/CSS Workshop
Week 20
March 5	Meet Allison Parrish!
March 7	Maxent tutorial Get occurrence data for Maxent modeling	Download Maxent Maxent tutorial Maxent notes (thank you, Ula!) Maxent next steps - Slides
Week 21
March 12	Process environmental data	Create background regions - RMarkdown
March 14	Partition occurrence data 🐒 🐀 March Mammal Madness! 🐏 🐅	Occurrence data partitioning - RMarkdown MMM instructions
Week 22
March 19	GitHub branching Prepare data for Maxent models	Branching in GitHub Maxent modeling script
March 21	Louise is visiting! Wrap up Maxent modeling script
Week 23
March 26	GitHub pull requests Build and visualize Maxent models Model selection	Git/GitHub workflows (slides 26-56) ENMeval tutorial
March 28	Visualize Maxent models Model selection	Maxent model selection tutorial
Week 24
April 2	Meet Tracey John! Projecting in space	Tracey's website
April 4	Update Maxent modeling script	Updated modeling script
Week 25
April 9	How do we pick a model? Updating Maxent model script Questions for Peri Doerfler	Questions for Peri Doerfler
April 11	Meet Peri Doerfler! At home: Future climate data ⏩	Back to the future - climate data
Week 26
April 16	Meet with Mary Blair! Getting help with R Finish updating Maxent model script	Debugging workflow saveRDS() function example
April 18	Pull requests Projecting forward in time	Cropping vs. masking Pull request instructions Projecting forward tutorial
Spring Recess	🌷 April 22-26 🌱
Week 27
April 30	Update Maxent modeling script Response curves Past climate data ⏪ Projecting backwards in time	List of projections to make Response curves - Markdown Turn back time - climate data Projecting backwards instructions
May 2	Finishing touches on code Save plots for presentations	List of figures for presentations
Week 28
May 7	Louise is visiting! Work on list of figures Come up with a title Work on poster and/or 15-minute presentation	List of figures for presentations Text and figures for poster - Google Doc SlothSquad poster SlothSquad 15 minute presentation
May 9	Presentation Skills / Improv Workshop
Week 29
May 14	Work on poster! Talk about posters	Sample posters folder Poster session video SlothSquad 5 minute presentation
May 16	Work on poster Install and test Zoom	Text and figures for poster - Google Doc SlothSquad poster Zoom download
Week 30
May 21	[Cecina in D.C. for conference] Work on poster
May 23	Edit abstract SRMP poster ready for printing! [6:30 pm]
Week 31
May 28	Practice presentation!
May 30	Final edits to presentations
Week 32
June 4	No internship session today
June 6	SRMP Colloquium, Poster, and 5-minute Presentation
June 9	15-minute presentation 🎓 Brown Scholar Intern Graduation! 🎉