EMF 115 1.0 Key Skills for Resource Managers (Statistics, Data Science and Statistical Programming)

This session, conducted under the unit EMF 115 1.0, is designed to equip future resource managers with essential skills in statistics, data science, and statistical programming.

Through hands-on learning with R, students will develop the ability to collect, manage, analyze, and visualize data relevant to environmental and resource management contexts.

Students are introduced to practical data science workflows, including data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, visualization, and introduction to statistics and machine learning models, all contextualized within environmental and forestry applications.