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Summary:
Users access and manipulate drought data and visualize these data to learn about historical drought patterns.
Contents:
NEON.swc(SWC | 66 KB)
VanZandt Final Swirl Lesson Plan.docx(DOCX | 15 KB)
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Description
This lesson will lead users through working with a portion of a data set that is collected by the National Climatic Data Center at a system of monitoring locations across the US. The data include drought indices that represent a biologically relevant and important ecological variable. Upon completion of the lesson, students will be prepared to design their own data exploration projects, which involve obtaining data from a source online (typically from a repository) and asking their own questions of the data.
Specifically, students will:
- Review / interpret metadata and data headers
- Screen data for missing values, understand how they’re coded, and separate them from meaningful data values
- Plot data over time
- Interpret the data and form new questions for future analyses
Cite this work
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
- Van Zandt, P. (2021). NEON_PDSI. Make Teaching with R in Undergraduate Biology Less Excruciating 2021, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/DF7F-7383