Feel free to post a question about the syllabus to the About the syllabus discussion.
[x] Update your ArcGIS Online (AGOL) profile to include a personalized photo or avatar and your areas of special skills (e.g., "I'm good at data vis", "I'm a StoryMap master", or "I literally know how to use Python").
[x] Includes your preferred name (so we know who you are)
[x] Includes the same profile image you used for your AGOL profile (to help us know it's you)
[x] Choose a focus: programming or analysis (delete the one you don't want).
Analysis focus: you are comfortable with ArcGIS Pro and have little to no programming experience, so let's start with what you are comfortable with and learn out how to use ModelBuilder to create reproducible geospatial workflows
[x] Join the GroupMe chat (email your professor your preferred email for GroupMe)
Like a comment or just say "hi"
[x] Log into AGOL and make sure you are a member of the "AdvGIS - Fall 2021" group
[ ] I completed the Ice Breaker challenge on the first day of classes
On GitHub
[x] Familiarize yourself with the Markdown syntax (see resources below)
[x] Introduce yourself to the class with a comment on the Welcome Discussion.
[x] (Wait until you hear from your instructor that it's okay to do this) Create a new issue on our repository's Issues, title it with your name (e.g., Davis's Checklist), copy-and-paste The Master Checklist content to the "Write" section, under Assignees: assign yourself, under Labels: checklist. Be sure to note your issue's unique number.
This is your copy of the master checklist
Use it to keep track of your accomplishments as you go through the semester
You may also see how your peers are progressing to judge your own time management
[x] Create your Report Wiki on our repository's Wiki page
This is where you submit your weekly tasks, goals, and accomplishments
See Home page for instructions
For Certificate Students only
[ ] Save a copy of the Performance Accomplishments document and share it with your professor (with edit permissions so I can leave comments)
Update the Evaluee section with your name
[ ] Sign up for your Semester Start, Progress, and Final meetings here
Note that you can adjust your scheduled times at any time; please inform your instructor of any changes.
The Consultancy
[x] Find a team (in groups of up to three people) to work together
[x] Form your consultancy.
It should have:
[x] Name: Atlas Consultancy
[x] Members: Martha, Maddie, Sarah
[x] Logo:
[x] Slogan: It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but women.
Create a publicly accessible website and provide the following:
[x] Video (~20 min or less) that summarizes your article (background, methods, and results + your first impressions)
[ ] Video (~10 min or less) on data collection or creation (w/ map or visual)
[x] Audio/video (~ 5 min or less) on a geoprocess or challenge you faced
[x] Prepare a publicly accessible progress report for your client meeting
It may be your website, slideshow, StoryMap, or another web-accessible document. Make it clear on your website how / where to access it. You can access the progress report of our project here.
Be sure to include visual aids
Remember that your client is not a GIS expert; tone your report for a lay audience
[x] Schedule a progress report meeting with your client here
[x] #30
Copy and paste your response here:
I found that the client meeting was very helpful in the reproducibility process. It was very beneficial to get feedback and practice explaining methods and results to someone without previous GIS or scientific knowledge. Completing this project has made me more aware of the importance of reproducibility in research and of outlining every method and result. Reproducibility can allow one study to be applied to multiple species, study areas, or whatever the topic of study is. This project has also pushed me to consider the importance of open source data and software. Because my consultancy could not access some of the software used in our paper's methods, we are not able to fully reproduce the methods and results of the data.
[x] Rate your paper's level of reproducibility (based on your opinion)
The levels are:
S: satisfactory (methods are clear and reproducible)
M: marginal (it is hard to say because some methods are unclear and/or data are outdated or not readily available)
U: unsatisfactory (there is no known way to reproduce these methods)
Our consultancy gives our paper the rating of M for the following reasons: While the authors of the article included a figure depicting their workflow and provided all of their data, we this article a marginal rating for reproducibility because some of the software used was not accessible. The TreeNet algorithm that is used to create the relative index of occurrence (RIO) and final habitat predictor model was only available for purchase, so we could not access it. This posed a large issue in reproducibility because we are now having to use a different software and algorithm, which will most likely not give the same results.
The Special Works Solutions
Prepare two methodologies for solving one of the special works projects
The special works project should emphasize a skill set that one of the consultants identified as a weakness in the pre-semester survey
Solutions may be typed or recorded
Solution Method 1:
[x] Solved to "basic" level
[x] Solved to "intermediate" level (tick both boxes)
Solution Method 2:
[x] Solved to "basic" level
[x] Solved to "intermediate" level (tick both boxes)
[x] We posted our solutions to our consultancy website
[x] We presented a discussion of our solutions in class or on GitHub
The Novel Datasets
[x] Our consultancy created a novel dataset
[x] in a file geodatabase and/or
[x] in GeoJSON format
[x] We posted a link to our dataset (with a license, description, and relevant metadata) to our consultancy website
[x] We presented a discussion of our dataset (and the methods for its creation) in class or on GitHub
Engagement
[x] Sign up here to schedule to contribute at least once to each of the five weekly topics.
If you are a certificate student, instead sign up for one topic each week.
[x] Question of the week. Date(s): (11/26)
[x] Data share of the week. Date(s): (12/10)
[x] Ethics consideration of the week. Date(s): (10/8)
[x] Vocab term of the week. Date(s): (10/29)
[x] Method of the week. Date(s): (10/22)
[x] Each week, respond to and/or engage with the five weekly discussion posts.
If there is no natural response, then please respond with a reaction to the comment.
[x] I responded to more than five discussion posts on GitHub
[x] I responded to more than ten discussion posts on GitHub
[ ] Share a selfie where you are holding or standing next to a physical item within Swem library (e.g., an open book, a painting, or a map) to our GitHub discussion board with a short description of the item and how it relates to a geospatial topic
[x] This includes creating folders and/or updating item names
[x] This includes updating the metadata (summary, description, terms of use, tags, and credits (attribution) appropriately on all shared items (organizationally, publicly or with groups)
[x] I shared a plan on how I organize my AGOL content and/or a system for tagging items in class or on GitHub
Complete at least three (3) hours or six (6) tutorials from one of the following sites: (1) Esri Academy; (2) ArcGIS Developer Guides; (3) Learn ArcGIS; (4) other approved resource (*include names of and links to each tutorial completed)
[x] I grant unrestricted permission to use media (e.g., web content, audio or video) I created for educational purposes
Note that you are not required to tick this box and, at any time, you may request that materials you made for this class be removed from use in past, current, and future classes
For certificate students only
Prepare solutions to two (2) special works projects.
Note that the same special works project cannot be used to satisfy both of the following.
[ ] Create a tutorial (written, audio, video) that accomplishes the reproducibility of your methods and results
[ ] Complete a live demonstration of solving a special works project.
Prepare your Performance Accomplishments document and share it with your professor.
[ ] Objective 1: include the benefits of independent and collaborative work
[ ] Objective 2: prepare a definition of geoethics and provide example(s) that demonstrate what it means (include all necessary citations)
[ ] Objective 3: Highlight a skill that you learned this semester (e.g., time management, data management, programming or other); reflect on how you organized your AGOL content; and reflect on the three pitfalls of GIS:
Failure to know GIS (theory and lexicon).
Failure to communicate GIS (purpose, process and metadata).
Failure to execute GIS (using the right data with the right tools in the right way).
[ ] Objective 4: reflect on your client meeting, what you would have done differently, and the challenges with communicating geospatial methods to a lay audience
[ ] Objective 5: reflect on the benefits of programmatic approaches for addressing geospatial challenges and provide an example
Getting Started
On GitHub
For Certificate Students only
The Consultancy
The Reproducibility Project and Client Meeting
[x] Propose a paper for approval here.
Update your website with the following:
[x] Prepare a publicly accessible progress report for your client meeting
[x] Schedule a progress report meeting with your client here
[x] #30
[x] Rate your paper's level of reproducibility (based on your opinion)
The Special Works Solutions
The Novel Datasets
Engagement
Become More Geoethical
Managing Your Data
Getting Started With Notebooks
Additional Practice
Complete at least three (3) hours or six (6) tutorials from one of the following sites: (1) Esri Academy; (2) ArcGIS Developer Guides; (3) Learn ArcGIS; (4) other approved resource (*include names of and links to each tutorial completed)
Final Touches
For certificate students only