Hello (Preface)

Short pre-course primer providing a quick preview of the class's structure and purpose before offering some background and direction on how best to use the online open source resources.

Lesson Table of Contents

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Works cited

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Written materials

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Reading

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Next lecture

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Works cited

This is the works cited from the lecture. Note that additional sources may be used in exercises and other supporting documentation.

A. Pottinger, "TED Visualization," Gleap.org. Available: https://gleap.org/content/ted_visualization
Wikipedia Contributors, "Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 2020. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg
A. Pottinger, L. Connor, B. Guzder-Williams, M. Weltman-Fahs, N. Gondek, and T. Bowles, "Climate-driven doubling of U.S. maize loss probability: Interactive simulation with neural network Monte Carlo," JDSSV, 2025. doi: 10.52933/jdssv.v5i3.134
A. Pottinger, R. Geyer, N. Biyani, C. Martinez, N. Nathan, M. Morse, M. de Bruyn, C. Boettiger, E. Baker, K. Koy, and D. McCauley, "Global Plastics AI Policy Tool," University of California, 2024. Available: https://global-plastics-tool.org/
A. Pottinger, "Food Sim SF," Gleap, 2024. Available: https://foodsimsf.com/
A. S. Pottinger and G. Zarpellon, "Pyafscgap.org: Open source multi-modal Python-based tools for NOAA AFSC RACE GAP," JOSS, vol. 8, no. 86, p. 5593, Jun. 2023, doi: 10.21105/joss.05593.