Online Resources & Training
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia's official contact for ESRI products and services.
Current Columbia University students, faculty and staff have access to the ESRI self paced e-learning courses.
For access, you must be a member of the Columbia Community with an active UNI (University Network ID). Virtual training access is now managed through your SrcGIS account, please request through the CIESIN GIS Service Center.
If you are not a Columbia affiliate, you must contact ESRI directly.
LinkedIn Learning offers introductory ArcGIS & QGIS instruction. Log in with your uni and search for ArcGIS or QGIS.
Javascript Resources
- Eloquent JavaScript (free ebook)
- The Modern JavaScript Tutorial
- Observable Tutorials
- D3 for R Users by Columbia Professor Joyce Robbins.
Python Resources
In addition to the Python resources provided by Clio, we suggest the following:
- Python User Group (sponsored by Columbia's Foundations for Research Computing)
- 10 Minutes to Pandas
- Plotting and Programming in Python from Data Carpentry (This is a novice-level tutorial)
- Think Python 2e (free ebook)
R Resources
In addition to the R resources provided by Clio, we suggest the following:
- Swirl
- R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis from Data Carpentry (This is a novice-level tutorial)
- R for Data Science
- edav.info v2, the R resources website for Professor Joyce Robbins’s “Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization” course for Data Science Master’s students.
- Modern Plain Text Computing, a course taught by Kieran Healy at Duke for graduate students incorporating R into their scholarly workflow.