2025 Training Schedule

Schedule for in-person training sessions

Main materials

Pre-workshop

Information about pre-workshop preparation – including software installation, expectations for what you should already be familiar with, and review materials – is available in the pre-work portion of the materials page.

13 June 2025

Time	Activity
	Arrival

14 June 2025 (08:30 - 17:30)

Time	Activity	Materials
8:30	Introduction to time dependent data and forecasting, course overview	Lecture Slides
9:30	Lecture: Regression Transformations and Diagnostics	Lecture Slides
10:30	Break
10:45	Practical: Regression Transformations and Diagnostics	Practical; transforms.csv
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Introduction to VecDyn Database and API	materials
14:00	Lecture: Time Dependent Data Analysis	Lecture Slides
15:00	Break
15:30	Practical: Time Dependent Data Analysis	Practical; Walton Co, FL Mosquito data
16:30	Introduction to climate and weather data for time dependent analyses	Guided Practice; NEON_tickplots_13sites_utf8.csv
17:00	Supported practice - pull VecDyn data, add covars, fit linear model

15 June 2025 (08:30 - 17:30)

Time	Activity	Materials
8:30	Overview of the day
9:00	Lecture: Basics of Time Series methods	Lecture Slides
10:00	Break
10:30	Practical: Basics of Time Series methods	Practical; NEONphenologyClean.csv
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Lecture: Introduction to Gaussian Process (GP) regression applied to time dependent data	Lecture Slides
14:00	Practical: GPs in R with hetGP	Practical
15:00	Break
15:30	Introduction to the dengue forecasting challenge	Description; data: dengueForecasting.csv; helper code: dengueForecastingChallenge.R
16:00	Form forecasting groups and begin forecasting challenge
17:00	Lightning talks

16 June 2025 (08:30 - 11:45)

Time.	Activity	Materials
8:30	Overview of the day
9:00	Forecasting Challenge
10:30	Break
11:00	Present and Evaluate forecasts
11:45	Lunch (Boxes to go)

Post-workshop

Enjoy using these new techniques and databases!