Using Excel, R, and ArcGIS
Unlock the power of environmental data with “Innovative Trend Analysis (ITA) for Time Series Data: Using Excel, R, and ArcGIS,” a course designed to advance your analytical skills in understanding and interpreting complex trends. Begin with an introduction to the key concepts of trend analysis in environmental monitoring and the use of powerful tools like Excel, R, and ArcGIS. Learn to manage and prepare data through cleaning, organization, and dealing with missing values and outliers, ensuring robust quality assurance for your analyses.
What you’ll learn
- Understand the core concepts of trend analysis and its pivotal role in environmental monitoring to make data-driven decisions for sustainable development..
- Gain proficiency in using Excel, R, and ArcGIS as your primary tools for dissecting complex time series data..
- Learn to clean, organize, and transform environmental data, handle missing values and outliers, and ensure data quality for accurate trend analysis..
- Develop skills in innovative trend modeling with R, learn to calculate and interpret the slope of trend analysis, and unveil hidden patterns in timeseries data..
- Become adept at visualizing trends, creating significant level plots, and identifying concealed trends within your data through sophisticated Excel techniques..
- Explore the integration of spatial statistics into environmental trend analysis and master spatial interpolation methods to visualize trends in geographic data..
- Learn to integrate analysis results and visuals from Excel, R, and ArcGIS to prepare tables, figures, and comprehensive interpretations ready for publication..
Course Content
- Introduction –> 6 lectures • 17min.
- Data Preparation for Innovative Trend Analysis –> 8 lectures • 36min.
- Innovative Trend Analysis in R –> 2 lectures • 14min.
- Preparation of Graphs in Excel –> 1 lecture • 27min.
- Spatial Trend Analysis in ArcGIS –> 4 lectures • 23min.
- Integration of Excel, R, and ArcGIS for Publication –> 4 lectures • 55min.
Requirements
Unlock the power of environmental data with “Innovative Trend Analysis (ITA) for Time Series Data: Using Excel, R, and ArcGIS,” a course designed to advance your analytical skills in understanding and interpreting complex trends. Begin with an introduction to the key concepts of trend analysis in environmental monitoring and the use of powerful tools like Excel, R, and ArcGIS. Learn to manage and prepare data through cleaning, organization, and dealing with missing values and outliers, ensuring robust quality assurance for your analyses.
Advance to innovative trend modeling in R, where you will dive into environmental data to model and analyze trends, learning to calculate and interpret their significance. In Excel, gain expertise in visualizing trends and identifying hidden patterns, while understanding the importance of statistical significance.
Move beyond the basics with spatial trend analysis in ArcGIS, utilizing spatial statistics and interpolation to visualize geographical data trends. Finally, integrate your skills across platforms to prepare tables, figures, and interpret results, readying your work for publication.
This course is perfect for environmental scientists, data analysts, GIS specialists, and anyone eager to develop their expertise in trend analysis. With practical exercises, quizzes, and community support, you will emerge from this course ready to apply your new skills to real-world environmental data challenges.