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Advance Research Investigations

Learning Outcomes

  • Introductions

  • Class Activity

  • Syllabus

  • Community Projects

  • Installing R

Introductions

Introductions

  • San Bernardino, CA

  • CSU Monterey Bay

    • BS Biology

  • San Diego State University

    • Master’s in Public Health

  • UC Riverside

    • PhD in Applied Statistics

Introductions

  • Name

  • Year

  • Major

    • Concentration

  • Fun Fact

  • What did you do for the summer?

  • Career Goal

Class Activity

Class Activity

  • What is a non-textbook (or math/stats/cs) book that you want to read, but don’t have time to?

  • Take a five minutes to think of the book.

  • On a piece of paper, write the name of the book and why you want to read it. You will turn this in!

  • Talk to your neighbor and share the book you want to read.

Syllabus

Community Projects

Community Project

  • Using publicly available data, you will form in groups to answer the questions asked by the community partner.

  • All projects will require GIS work

  • Some projects are easier than others

  • All analysis must be conducted in R

  • Groups will have free-range of the analysis, but it must be related to the topic.

  • These are student-lead independent projects under the guidance of the professor.

  • The groups will be created by the professor.

  • The final product will be a scientific report.

Community Member

Community Action Ventura County

Community Projects

  • Identify locations to distribute diapers, and other infant products, to Ventura Couny

  • Understand how climate change affects food insecurity in Ventura County

  • Understanding the geographic distribution of vaccine hesitancy of Ventura County

Diaper Distribution

  • Locations where low income families reside.

  • Identify challenges to diaper acquirement

  • Closest WIC or other low/no-cost infant locations

  • Travel Time and bus routes

  • Required knowledge

    • GIS

    • Network Analysis

  • Challenges to Analysis:

    • Network Analysis

Climate Change

  • What are climate change factors affecting food insecurity?

    • Flooding

    • Disease

      • Mosquito-borne diseases

    • Temperature

  • Required knowledge

    • GIS

  • Challenges to Analysis

    • Disciplinary knowledge

Vaccine Hesitancy

  • Using school data and census data, you will create a model to identify which factors affect vaccine uptake.

  • Required Knowledge

-   GIS

-   Spatial Regression

  • Challenges to Analysis

    • Must incorporate a Monte Carlo Approach

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Installing R

Install R

https://cran.r-project.org/

Must update to 4.3

Install Rtools (for Windows)

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/

Install RStudio

https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/

Install Quarto

https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/

Install csustats

https://www.inqs.info/csustats/

Install sf

https://r-spatial.github.io/sf/

Install Zotero (Optional)

https://www.zotero.org/

Install Git (Optional)

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

Create Github Account (Optional)

https://github.com/