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    Data Visualization
    This is an introduction to the idea of data visualization and the importance of presenting data for understanding.

    Keywords: data in the classroomdata visualization

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    Teaching Data Viz and Communication as an Undergraduate Biology Course: Assignments and Projects
    Teaching materials co-developed for a new upper-level undergraduate biology course to teach data exploration and communication without requiring previous coding experience.

    Keywords: data visualizationR programming languagedata literacycalling bulldata viztidy dataOur World in DataDear Data

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    Teaching Data Viz and Communication as an Undergraduate Biology Course: Syllabus and Resources
    Teaching materials co-developed for a new upper-level undergraduate biology course to teach data exploration and communication without requiring previous coding experience.

    Keywords: data visualizationR programming languagedata literacycalling bulldata viztidy data

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    Calling Bullshit DCS 105 Bates College Data Visualization Activity Slides
    This is a slide deck containing all in-class data visualization activity slides for the course DCS 105 - Calling Bullshit at Bates College.

    Keywords: datadata visualizationhands-onbatescalling bullDCS 105

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    Visualizing Global CO2 Emissions
    Using CO2 emissions data, students will learn how to visualize data with Tableau Public. The teaching materials are suitable for upper-level undergraduate courses on data analysis and research...

    Keywords: data visualizationResource Typeclimate change dataTableau

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    Communicating with Data: Digital Data Resources
    Students access, clean, configure, and standardize a dataset and create a relevant and scientifically valid data visualization to communicate science.

    Keywords: data in the classroomdata visualizationdigital resourcesbiodiversity informaticsbiodiversity collections

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    Remote sensing data processing – NEON airborne data
    Concepts of remote sensing and data logistics, and NEON remote sensing data are introduced. Students learn how to apply spatial data processing and visualization skills using R coding program to...

    Keywords: RlandscapebiomassProblem Solvingraster raster data processingspatial data visualizationvegetation indicescanopy

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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: Intro to R
    This resource uses the Human Impact on Stream Ecology data set, background and questions and provides students an very general introduction to using R. Students perform basic summary statistics and...

    Keywords: graphingdata visualizationR programming languagedescriptive statisticsundergraduate environmental science

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    Learn Biological Sciences and Physics through scientific process, creation, experimentation and analysis
    Microbes remain attached and grow on various surfaces whether living or non-living. These surfaces provide differential growth substances for microbes to remain attached or grow. The differential...

    Keywords: data analysisscientific methodphysicshands-onScientific InquirymicrobesBiological SciencesSpectrophotometer

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    Understanding COVID-19 Biology to Design a Vaccine
    This multi-part case study introduces the reader to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, replication, and treatment. Additional worksheets introduce students to bioinformatics tools of 3-D protein visualization...

    Keywords: BLASTprotein structure modelingmolecular visualization and analysisCOVID19PDB

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    Downloading and Visualizing Project Data from the iNaturalist Database
    In this activity you will learn how to create a query, export, and download data from iNaturalist; load data into R; explore pollinator-plant interactions with R, and create heat map, bipartite,...

    Keywords: data visualizationplantsPlant EcologyPlant-insect interactionsnetwork#iNaturalistBLUEpollinators

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    Communicating with Data: Infographic with Digital Data
    Working collaboratively in teams of 2-4 researchers, students engage in targeted projects to address critical information and research needs using digital biodiversity data.

    Keywords: databasesdata in the classroomundergraduate researchdigital collectionscourse-based research experiences (CUREs)biodiversity collections

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    A Walk Through the Woods
    Data driven curriculum module from Dryad Digital Repository

    Keywords: ecologygraphingResources @ Dryadhypothesis testingdata visualizationbotanyclimate changeadaptationforestryDryadLabhypothesis formulationenvironmental pressureswood structure and function

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    3D breast cancer tissue reconstruction
    This module allows students to follow a researcher as she discovers new features of breast cancer tissue architecture, using 3D reconstructions of histological specimens.

    Keywords: graphingdata visualizationbreast cancerDCIShistogramscentroidsums of squares

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    Tree Biomass and Phenology
    This lesson centers around understanding the connection of tree biomass and phenology with climate change. It uses both swirl and LearnR lessons in the R programming language to help students make...
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    DCS 105 Calling Bull F24 Schedule
    Schedule overview for Bates College Course DCS 105 Calling Bull

    Keywords: datacalling bullmisinformationBates CollegeSchedule

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    Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data using R
    The purpose of this modification was to take the analyses that were done in Excel and have the students perform them using R. Students were not given any R code for this activity, as R code was...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEcase studyR programming languagepopulation ecologyendangered speciesconservation biologymigration ecologyggplot2

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    Data Management in Excel and R using National Ecological Observatory Network's (NEON) Small Mammal Data
    Students use small mammal data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to understand necessary steps of data management from data collection to data analysis by re-organising excel sheets...

    Keywords: codingR Markdowndata managementggplot2spreadsheetssmall mammals community dynamicsNEONResource TypeNational Ecological Observatory NetworkR softwaredplyr

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    The Happy Blue Baby Hemoglobin
    This case, about a specific mutant of hemoglobin, focuses on visualizing and understanding the molecular basis of why an infant turned blue soon after birth and how the cyanosis resolved.

    Keywords: mutationHemoglobinmolecular visualization and analysisPDBMolecular Case Study

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    Leaf cutter ant foraging
    This module introduces students to leaf-cutter ants in the rainforests of Panama. Students derive their own research hypotheses regarding ant foraging or allometric scaling relationships.

    Keywords: leaf cutter antsforagingallometrylinear regressiongraphingdata visualizationResources @ AIMSbody size

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