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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Interpretation of geodata

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 548-0092/02
Abbreviation IGD
Course title Interpretation of geodata
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Geoinformatics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Igor Ivan, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1) Methods of pre-processing of data and geodata for further processing
2) Errors in data and geodata and dealing with errors
3) Basics in R
4) R and geodata
5) Principal component analysis and interpretation of results
6) Factor analysis and interpretation of results
7) Discriminant analysis and interpretation of results
8) Cluster analysis and interpretation of results
9) Decision trees and interpretation of results
10)Basics of data mining

Literature

ZUUR, A. F., IENO, E. N., MEESTERS, E. (2009): A Beginner's Guide to R. Springer, 236 p.
DALGAARD, P. (2008): Introductory Statistics with R. Springer, 380 p.
LOVELACE, R., NOWOSAD, R.,MUENCHOW, J.(2019): Geocomputation with R. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. The R series. ISBN 978-1-138-30451-2 .
SPECTOR, P. (2008): Data manipulation with R. New York: Springer. Use R!. ISBN 978-0-387-74730-9.
STINEROCK, R. N. (2018): Statistics with R: a beginner's guide. Los Angeles: SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4739-2489-5 .

Advised literature

EVERITT, B., HOTHORN, T. (2011): An Introduction to Applied Multivariate Analysis with R. Springer, 288 p.
SCHUMACKER, R.,E., TOMEK, S. (2013): Understanding statistics using R. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-6226-2.
WICKHAM, H., GROLEMUND, G. (2016): R for data science: import, tidy, transform, visualize, and model data. Sebastopol: O’Reilly Media. ISBN 978-1-4919-1039-9 .
LAROSE, C. D., LAROSE, D.T. (2019): Data science using Python and R. Hoboken: Wiley. Wiley series on methods and applications in data mining. ISBN 978-1-119-52681-0 .
TATTAR, P., RAMAIAH, S., MANJUNATH, B. G.(2016): A course in statistics with R. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 9781119152750 .