Topic outline

  • Theme lecture

    The theme lecture is available at the following web-page:

    Prezi presentation of the water scarcity


    Hands-on exercise

    You can get the Theme 5 exercise from git by following instructions below: 

    1. Start RStudio
    2. If it did not start where you left (or you have done something else in the meanwhile), navigate to the exercise directory
    3. Tools -> Shell
    4. this command will make a "checkpoint" where you can come back: git commit -am "my changes after exercise 4"
    5. give command to retrieve new exercise and other changes: git pull


    Home assignment

    Discover water scarcity trends in your study area 

    Instructions:

    1. please develop your own research question
    2. produce EITHER one page infographic OR 'tradional' one page poster (A4/A3) with following structure: a) title; b) research question and short introduction; c) maps, graphs, etc of the results with captions d) interpretation of the results
    3. you can get help to possible problems by a) searching from internet: there are many people with similar problems; b) posting question to the discussion forum of the course (tool below the text; teachers and other students will be answering to those questions); c) coming to Thursday workshop, or d) asking your fellow students directly
    4. once you are happy with the end result, please submit the work (see below Submission)


    Graph types: stacked area graph (http://www.datavizcatalogue.com/methods/stacked_area_graph.html) or similar graph (such as trajectory) to illustrate changes over time

    Research ideas

    • water scarcity trajectory over time
    • drivers (i.e. water use sectors) of water scarcity over time
    • stress, shortage or both - implications?
    • comparison of project area water scarcity to other area or global trends


    Submission
    : please submit the assignment by using the submission icon below. 

    Thursday workshop

    On Thursday we have a workshop at U256 (main building) in where you can get help on the home assignment and project work. Schedule will be as follows:

    9:15 - 9:30 support to your home assignments

    9:30 - 9:45 recap of the requested issues in Illustrator

    9:45 -> support to your home assignment

    • Please submit the 5th home assignment here; instructions are given in the main page. 

      Please remember: submission is due on Mon 20.5 at 23:55. Should you submit the assingment late, you'll get only half of the points. The submission will be completely closed on 27.5, after which you are not able to submit the assignment. 

      Before submission, please check:

      • your home assignment fits to one page
      • the format of the submission is pdf
      • assignment includes stacked area graph or similar graph (such as trajectory) to illustrate changes over time