OTN x CANSSI ECR Workshop

This pair of lessons will introduce some concepts in 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 and then used to create animal movement animations using gganimate and pathroutr.

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. Background	What is the Ocean Tracking Network? How does your local telemetry network interact with OTN? What methods of data analysis will be covered?
00:05	2. BACKGROUND - 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?
00:55	3. BACKGROUND - Starting with Data Frames	How do I import tabular data? How do I explore my data set? What are some basic data manipulation functions?
01:30	4. BACKGROUND - Intro to Plotting	How do I plot my data? How can I plot summaries of my data?
01:55	5. Telemetry Reports - Imports	What datasets do I need from the Network? How do I import all the datasets?
02:05	6. Telemetry Reports for Array Operators	How do I summarize and plot my deployments? How do I summarize and plot my detections?
02:35	7. Telemetry Reports for Tag Owners	How do I summarize and plot my detections? How do I summarize and plot my tag metadata?
03:05	8. Basic Animation	How do I set up my data extract for animation? How do I animate my animal movements?
03:25	9. Animation with pathroutr	How can I create animal movement plots that avoid land?
03:45	10. Spatial and Temporal Modelling with GAMs	What are GAMs? How can I use GAMs to visualise my data?
03:45	11. Introduction to the miscYAPS package	What is YAPS? For what applications is YAPS well-suited? How can I use the miscYAPS package to make working with YAPS easier?
03:45	12. Other OTN Telemetry Curriculums	How can I expand my learning?
03:45	Finish

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