NEON Data Skill Utilities in R or Python

NEON offers a series of data skills training webinars to guide community members in working with NEON data. 

In this 1.5-hour online workshop, NEON scientist Claire Lunch will lead participants through the fundamentals of NEON data access and navigation. Participants will learn how to use the neonUtilities package to transform NEON data into a format that is easier to work with, how to use provided metadata to understand data contents, and how to download data directly into a programming environment. Participants can follow along in either R or Python. The final 30 minutes are reserved for general Q&A and assistance.

This training is being hosted in partnership with the Ecological Society of America (ESA) as part of their professional certification programming. The webinar is free to ESA members, and $10 for non-ESA members. Learn more on the ESA career development web page.

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For those attending, see below for pre-event guidance: 

We will be coding throughout the webinar, with options to follow along in either R or Python. For the best experience in coding along with us, set up your coding environment and packages before the webinar.

R: Install the current version of R and RStudio, then download and run this script. If you don’t get the “Hooray!” message at the end, follow the suggestions in the error messages.

Python: There are more options for Interactive Development Environments (IDEs) in Python than in R. If you have a setup that works for you, feel free to use it. We recommend using Jupyter Notebooks or Spyder (installed with Anaconda), and Python version 3.11 (at a minimum, version 3.9 is required). Install the neonutilities and rasterio packages, then download and run this script. If you see any error messages, follow the suggestions for package installations.