OTN x ACT - R Acoustic Telemetry Workshop, April 2021

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, along with examples from each package.

If you have questions about this curriculum, please reach out to otndc@dal.ca

Schedule

	Setup	Download files required for the lesson
00:00	1.
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 Network? 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 Package	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. Introduction to actel	What does the actel package do? When should I consider using Actel to analyze my acoustic telemetry data?
05:00	12. Preparing ACT/OTN/GLATOS Data for actel	How do I take my ACT detection extracts and metadata and format them for use in actel?
05:30	13. Introduction to Boosted Regression Trees	How is boosted regression tree modeling used in telemetry analysis? What are the advantages of boosted regression trees when working with telemetry data?
06:15	14. Other OTN Telemetry Curriculums	How can I expand my learning?
06:15	Finish

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