Content

Course content

The course curriculum contains theory and interactive exercises as outlined below. This is the curriculum for all the OS courses and workshops. The teaching material is openly available (see links below).

Introduction

Introduction to course

General introduction to OS

Tools and approaches

Data management plan, data papers and registered reports

Executable documents with Quarto

Data life cycle and management

Data life cycle

Data handling

Make a function

Write an R package

Data repositories

Data discovery and access - GBIF

Darwin Core and AI

Wonders of GBIF

Biases in GBIF data

Living Norway R package to publish data

Reproducible workflows

Version control

Analysis

Systematic reviews

Meta analysis

Best practice in data analysis

Best practice for reporting scientific results

Other resources

  • BES guides The British Ecological Society has a series of guides to research excellence on topics like data management, reproducible coding and more.
  • BioST@TS BioST@TS is an online platform with everything you need to know to write your thesis in R.