Slides.Rmd

---
title: "Intro2Linux"
author: "Jan Verbesselt"
date: "`r format(Sys.time(), '%d %B, %Y')`"
output: slidy_presentation
---

## Refreshing what we have seen yesterday

- Let's have a look at:
    * http://r-sig-geo.2731867.n2.nabble.com/
    
- Why OS-GEOlive Ubuntu Linux? 
    * Free
    * Open-source
        * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation
        * http://www.osgeo.org/
        * http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
        
- Why Linux?
    * http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/

## Free Data sources

- http://www.diva-gis.org/Data
- http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/

## Scoring of the scripting project

Criteria:

* Demonstrating capacity to read, visualize, and write spatial data with a reproducible script other students can use
* Using different functions and modules (Python) or libraries (R)
* Writing a clear, structured and well documented script 
    * that is usable by others
    * share via your GitHub repository
* Creativity
    * Tackle a simple and clear problem (not too ambitious)
* Presentation: 
    * Ability to present your geo-challenge
    * Visualise the results/script 
        * e.g. using RPubs? Create a presentation? (See the *Rmd example at our GitHub repository)

## Project planning

* Make up a planning what you want to do each day
* Try to finish the major part before Thurday so that you have thursday to 
    * improve your script
    * focus on reproducability
    * visualise results using a script
* Do not store data sets on GitHub (size limit of 50Mb)
    * use Dropbox or download scripts.

## Other nice things

* Check out Springer books via the WUR library
* http://foss4geo.org/
* Meeting at the end of the month;
    * http://www.osgeo.org/node/1464