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Introduction to Geospatial Concepts
https://www.datacarpentry.org/organization-geospatial/
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recommend removing discussion of Python #25

Closed ErinBecker closed 6 years ago

ErinBecker commented 6 years ago

Since all of the coding lessons in this workshop are currently based on R, I would recommend removing the section of the third episode that discusses Python packages and just focus on R.

Inclusion of Python risks cognitive load issues.

obrl-soil commented 6 years ago

Have to say I'm not sure this workshop fits in too well with the other two at all - most of what's in here feels like pre-reading, or maybe 'read-more' material that could supplement r-intro-geospatial and raster-vector-geospatial.

ErinBecker commented 6 years ago

I agree that it's supplementary. The idea is that this lesson will only be taught if the audience is not already familiar with geospatial concepts. The paragraph below from the workshop homepage tries to set that expectation. What do you think?

This workshop assumes no prior experience with the tools covered in the workshop. However, learners with prior experience working with geospatial data may be able to skip the Geospatial Project Organization and Management lesson. Similarly, learners who have prior experience with the R programming language may wish to skip the Introduction to R for Geospatial Data lesson.

obrl-soil commented 6 years ago

Yep works for me