The book provides insights to the various approaches to Earth-related data analysis, starting from data preparation and validation, exploratory data analysis, linear regression, and going through time series decomposition, modeling, and prediction.
Łukasz Pawlik is a geographer, geomorphologist, and data scientist. His research encompasses abroad range of topics, from analyses of spatial and soil data, climate time series, geochemistry of fossil deposits, and radiocarbon dating. A majority of his projects and teaching activities at the university are heavily built on and supported by multiple R functionalities, including existing packages, custom functions, and R Markdown documents.