Schedule (for Fall 2025)#

Unit 1: Geospatial Data Analysis#

Week

Date

Lecture

Homework

1

Aug 25

Introduction

Assignment 1

Aug 27

Vector data

2

Sep 1

No class (Labor Day)

Assignment 2

Sep 3

Rivers of the world activity

3

Sep 8

Network data

Assignment 3

Sep 10

Residential flooding activity

4

Sep 15

Gridded data

Assignment 4

Sep 17

Census activity

Unit 2: Geospatial Machine Learning#

Week

Date

Lecture

Homework

5

Sep 22

Machine learning fundamentals

Assignment 5

Sep 24

Wine activity

6

Sep 29

No class (Baby)

Oct 1

No class (Baby)

7

Oct 6

Neural networks

Assignment 6

Oct 8

Penguin activity

8

Oct 13

No class (Fall break)

Submit project idea

Oct 15

Previous class projects

9

Oct 20

Specialized neural networks

Assignment 7

Oct 22

EuroSAT activity

Unit 3: Project Management#

Week

Date

Lecture

Homework

10

Oct 27

Data access

Oct 29

Make a README

11

Nov 3

Code management and collaboration

Project work

Nov 5

Initialize GitHub repository

Unit 4: Communication#

Week

Date

Lecture

Homework

12

Nov 10

Design principles

Project work

Nov 12

Contribute to a GitHub project

13

Nov 17

Cartography

Project work

Nov 19

Activity

14

Nov 24

Interactive visualization

No lab

Nov 26

No class (Thanksgiving)

15

Dec 1

Student project presentations

No lab

Dec 3

Student project presentations

Final project write-ups due Dec 5 at 11:59pm