From August 16-18, 2023, UGA faculty and BNRGI team member JP Schmidt led a workshop for graduate students at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) in Belém. Dr. Schmidt reports:
“I gave a 3-day morning workshop ‘Introduction to R Studio and R Basics for Simple Data Visualization and Statistics’ to graduate students at UFPA. The 20 enrollees were mainly students in the social sciences connected to INEAF. After spending the first morning on R basics, we worked with the Brazilian Censo Agropecuário. The Censo Agropecuário is a fount of data on topics relevant to many of the students, but the data require extensive reformatting and restructuring, which we dug into. On the last day, we were able to move into simple data analyses, visualizations and map figures. I was impressed with the enthusiasm of the students, who asked for help with particular applications relevant to their work, network diagrams, maps, and regression analysis.”