- From www.futurelearn.com
Big Data and the Environment
- 3 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
- Starts on April 25, 2021
- Ends on May 16, 2021
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction to big data
- Sources of big data, including satellites for looking at the surface of the Earth
- Environmental analytics and the link to big data
- Computing power, processing and storage for environmental data
Week 2: Data to Discovery
- Open data
- The challenges of working with data
- The skills and knowledge of a data scientist
Week 3: Big and Small Data
- Citizen science for climate simulation and ecology
- Real-life examples of environmental analytics
- Visualising data
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Vicky Lucas
Training manager for the IEA - interested in all things about learning and the environment.
Jon Blower
Chief Technology Officer at the Institute for Environmental Analytics. We help all kinds of people to understand and make the most of environmental data!
Editor
The University of Reading was founded in 1892 during a period of rapid development in the city of Reading, England. This is one of the Red Brick University.
Platform
FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.
It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.
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