UC GIS Week

The UCSB rAtlas

The UCSB rAtlas is an Open Source project to mimic Data Carpentry's Introduction to Raster and Vector Data. Solutions to each episode of the Carpentry lesson are recreated using data sources local to the Santa Barbara campus. Started as a team-building exercise, the Atlas has provided the UCSB Library DREAM Lab solid experience using R with geospatial data--an increasingly common alternative to ArcGIS and QGIS. It has also solidified our ability to teach the Carpentry Lesson as it is written as well as take a leadership role with the evolution of the lesson.

The atlas is downloadable to run at: https://github.com/UCSBCarpentry/ucsb-ratlas