Quantitative Skill-Building

UC Davis DataLab

• The DataLab (formerly the Data Science Initiative) offers trainings, seminars, and consultations on a wide variety of data analysis and exploration.

Statistics

• Statistics for Terrified Biologists

Programming in R

• R-DAVIS course offered through the Graduate Group in Ecology
• Weekly #TidyTuesday Challenges
• Hadley Wickham’s R for Data Science
• Fun fact: this website was made in R Markdown (see here), so R is a useful for more than just data analysis!

Programming in Python

• Python Programming for Beginners using Harry Potter Examples!

GIS

• Getting Started with GIS via ESRI

Data Visualzation / Figure Design

• Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction by Kieran Healy
• MIT Communication Lab Figure Design
• Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures

Using Version Control / GitHub

• R-DAVIS guide to setting up a Git repository with RStudio
• A Quick Introduction to Version Control with Git and GitHub by Blischak et al. (2016)
• MIT Communication Lab GitHub Resources

Best Practices for Organizing Code

• MIT Communication Lab Coding Mindset

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