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Pre-Convention Workshop

Inventory and Biometrics

Preconvention Workshops

Data Science for Forestry Applications

Wednesday, October 25, 2023
8:30am - 12:00pm PST
Location: Meeting Rooms 2
CFE 3 / ISA CEU 3 / ESA CEU .75
Forest and natural resource managers are increasingly using data in new and complex ways. This workshop encourages and empowers forest analysts to better use data to make strategic decisions about their resources. It adds value by providing hands-on experience with data science problems and their solutions.

Learning Objectives:

  • use R and RStudio to write, edit, debug, execute, and save R programs.
  • load forest inventory data into R and generate tabular and graphical summaries
  • merge, reformat, and subset forestry data, and compile and scale data from the tree to plot and county level