1 NCEAS Expertise
The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), a research affiliate of UCSB, is a leading expert on interdisciplinary data science and works collaboratively to answer the world’s largest and most complex questions. The NCEAS approach leverages existing data and employs a team science philosophy to squeeze out all potential insights and solutions efficiently - this is called synthesis science.
NCEAS has 30 years of success with this model among working groups and environmental professionals. Together with the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER Network) we are excited to pass along skills, workflows, mindsets learned throughout the years through the Authentic Research Experience for Teachers program.
- Understand how any why to use Git and GitHub for file management and version control
- Understand how and why to use R, RStudio, and Quarto to communicate reproducible scientific analysis
2 Setup for course: get the software!
Follow the instructions here to install the needed software and get an account on GitHub. We’ll set these up later, but the basic installation is pretty straightforward.
- Git version control software
- GitHub web-based version control system
- R statistical software
- RStudio software to make it easier to work with R (an integrated development environment or IDE)
3 Code of Conduct
By participating in this activity you agree to abide by the NCEAS Code of Conduct.
4 About this book
These written materials are the result of a continuous and collaborative effort at NCEAS to help researchers make their work more transparent and reproducible. This work began in the early 2000’s, and reflects the expertise and diligence of many, many individuals. The primary authors are listed in the citation below, with additional contributors recognized for their role in developing previous iterations of these or similar materials.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This is a Quarto book. To learn more about Quarto books visit https://quarto.org/docs/books.