This graduate course introduces you to tools that help you survive as a geoscientist. Create code to visualize your data
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Geoviz (GLY6739) for Fall term, 2017. Don’t get stuck using research tools, learn to build them! This graduate course introduces you to tools that help you survive as a geoscientist. Create code to visualize your data and freak out your colleagues. Sign up!
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Learn about: • UNIX and UNIX tools to start computing like a scientist
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• Latex and tikz to start publishing research like a scientist • gnuplot to visualize and model your data • generic mapping tools and GDAL to create location maps, contour your data, create digital elevation models
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• Wikis to explain and document your research • PERL to manipulate your massive data • HTML5 and p5 to write scientific codes that run on the web
Contact: Chuck Connor (email:
[email protected], SCA517)
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