OTN x FACT - R Acoustic Telemetry Workshop, December 2020

This pair of workshops will introduce the R programming language, popular in the field of biologging.

In session one we will explore some of the popular software packages suitable for exploring and plotting acoustic telemetry data, including dplyr and ggplot2, for the purpose of generating summaries for reports.

The second session offers a brief overview of the glatos R package for performing detection filtering, various calculations and plotting. The data is then transformed for ingestion into the powerful acoustic telemetry packages VTrack and actel. We will end off the second session with guest speakers Dr. Hugo Flavio who will introduce actel in more detail, and Dr. Charles Bangley who will introduce the learners to boosted regression trees and gbm.auto.

After the second session there will be an open Study Hall with all presenters, and members of the general public, to socialize and ask questions! Zoom link will be provided and all attendees are welcome! Email otndc@dal.ca if you’ve missed the link!

Schedule

	Setup	Download files required for the lesson
00:00	1. OTN Collaboration Update	What is the Ocean Tracking Network? How does the FACT Network interact with OTN?
00:00	2. Intro to R	What are common operators in R? What are common data types in R? What are some base R functions? How do I deal with missing data?
00:50	3. Starting with Data Frames	How do I import tabular data? How do I explore my data set? What are some basic data manipulation functions?
01:25	4. Intro to Plotting	How do I plot my data? How can I plot summaries of my data?
01:50	5. Telemetry Reports - Imports	What datasets do I need from the Node? How do I import all the datasets?
02:00	6. Telemetry Reports for Array Operators	How do I summarize and plot my deployments? How do I summarize and plot my detections?
02:30	7. Telemetry Reports for Tag Owners	How do I summarize and plot my detections? How do I summarize and plot my tag metadata?
03:00	8. Introduction to GLATOS Data Processing	How do I load my data into GLATOS? How do I filter out false detections? How can I consolidate my detections into detection events? How do I summarize my data?
03:30	9. More Features of GLATOS	What other features does GLATOS offer?
03:45	10. Basic Visualization and Plotting	How can I use GLATOS to plot my data? What kinds of plots can I make with my data?
04:15	11. Preparing FACT/OTN/GLATOS Data for actel	How do I take my glatos data and format for actel?
04:30	12. Introduction to actel
05:15	13. Introduction to Boosted Regression Trees
06:00	14. Other OTN Telemetry Curriculums	How can I keep expanding my learning?
06:00	Finish

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.