Spatial Sciences
#maptimeDavis Workshops & #maptimeDavis Studio
The Spatial Sciences Research & Learning Cluster is a community for people (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, post docs, staff, etc.) at UC Davis and our immediate community with an interest in working with spatial data. Participation is open to everyone, at any skill level. The Spatial Sciences Research & Learning Cluster is a welcoming and supportive community.
This research and learning cluster provides two specific avenues for engaging with spatial data:
- #maptimeDavis Workshops – Instructor-lead formal workshops teaching a specific skills. These workshops typically require participants to bring a laptop computer with software installed pertaining to the topic of the workshop (we’ll let you know what you need before hand).
- #maptimeDavis Studio – A time for community discussion and learning. Typical meetings include introductions; descriptions of people’s work; sharing of successes, trouble spots, and questions; and group learning on a scheduled topic. For Fall 2020, we will focus on the same topic as the previous week’s workshop. You do not need to have active, on-going research to participate or be a valuable resource to this community. We recognize that ideas, learning, and engagement happen on many levels.
How to participate: #maptimeDavis Workshops and Studio will meet on alternate weeks on Tuesdays 10:00-12:00 in via Zoom.
Please send questions to Michele Tobias – mmtobias@ucdavis.edu
#maptimeDavis Workshop & Studio Schedule
Workshops and Studio meetings meet Tuesdays 10:00-12:00 via Zoom, unless otherwise noted. Zoom connection details are in the link for each event.
Registration is encouraged by not required.
This is the tentative schedule as of September 23rd. The schedule will be finalized by September 28th. Registration links and more details are coming soon.
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
| 6-Oct | #maptimeDavis Studio: The Year of the Map: The Importance of Spatial Data in 2020 | Leah Nagel/Community Discussion |
| 13-Oct | #maptimeDavis Workshop: Contributing geographic data through OpenStreetMap (OSM) | Gaurav Thapa |
| 20-Oct | #maptimeDavis Studio: OSM Data | Community Discussion |
| 27-Oct | #maptimeDavis Workshop: Map Journal Figure Design | Michele Tobias |
| 3-Nov | #maptimeDavis Studio: Map Design & Cartography | Michele Tobias/Community Discussion |
| 10-Nov | #maptimeDavis Workshop: Crop Type Mapping with Deep Learning using TensorFlow | Alex Mandel & Lily Thomas, Development Seed |
| 17-Nov | #maptimeDavis Studio: Machine Learning | Community Discussion |
| 24-Nov | #maptimeDavis & Davis R Users Group Workshop: From Spatial Data to Publication Ready Figure: Mapmaking with R | Ryan Peek |
| 1-Dec | #maptimeDavis Studio: Mapping with R | Community Discussion |