index.Rmd

--- 
title: "CASA0005 Geographic Information Systems and Science"
author: Andy MacLachlan^[The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, https://twitter.com/andymaclachlan] and Adam Dennett^[The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, https://twitter.com/adam_dennett]
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
output: bookdown::gitbook
documentclass: book
bibliography: [book.bib, packages.bib]
biblio-style: apalike
link-citations: yes
github-repo: "andrewmaclachlan/CASA0005repo"
description: "The CASA0005 Geographic Information Systems and Science practical book"
url: 'https\://andrewmaclachlan.github.io/CASA0005repo/'
cover-image: general_images/casa_logo.png
apple-touch-icon: "assets/apple-touch-icon.png"
apple-touch-icon-size: 120
favicon: "assets/favicon.ico"
---

```{r include = FALSE}
htmltools::tagList(rmarkdown::html_dependency_font_awesome())
```

# Welcome {-}

Hello <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/"><img src="general_images/casa_logo.jpg" width="120" alt="CASA0005 course" align="right" style="margin: 0 1em 0 1em" /></a> and a warm welcome to the CASA0005 Geographic Information Systems and Science online pratical handbook. This website is hosted on GitHub and holds all the practical instructions and data. Data used within the practicals is available online, however occasionally websites can undergo maintenance or be inaccessible due to political factors such as government shutdowns. Accessing this data is explained in the [section hello GIS](#Hello GIS).

## Acknowledgement {-}

Thanks to the following people who have either contributed directly or provided code in repositories that have helped me style this book:

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* [STAT 545](https://stat545.com/index.html#other-contributors)
* [rstudio4edu](https://rstudio4edu.github.io/rstudio4edu-book/)
* [Hadley Wickham](https://twitter.com/hadleywickham)
* [Alison Presmanes Hill](https://twitter.com/apreshill)
* [Desirée De Leon](https://twitter.com/dcossyle)
* [Yihui Xie](https://twitter.com/xieyihui)
* [Robin Lovelace](https://twitter.com/robinlovelace)
* [Twitter for R programmers](https://www.t4rstats.com/index.html)
* [Matt Ng](https://twitter.com/mattnkm)
* [StatQuest with Josh Starmer](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtYLUTtgS3k1Fg4y5tAhLbw)
* [Julia Silge](https://twitter.com/juliasilge)
* [Jenny Bryan](https://twitter.com/JennyBryan)
</div><br/>

The R package and analysis artwork used within this book has been produced by [allison_horst](https://twitter.com/allison_horst), whilst artwork used in information boxes has been produced by [Desirée De Leon](https://twitter.com/dcossyle). You can find Allison's images on the [stats illustration GitHub repository](https://github.com/allisonhorst/stats-illustrations) and Desirée's on the [rstudio4edu GitHub repository](https://github.com/rstudio4edu/rmd4edu).

I've certainly learnt a lot from their open code repositories!