Teaching Resources

Here’s an archive of bits and bobs I’ve made up for workshops and tutoring. Added and updated sporadically.

Mapping and spatial data in R

How to make a nice chloropleth map, March 2026 How to plot polygons and rasters in base graphics and ggplot2
How much malaria is there?, September 2025 How to use the malariaAtlas package to extract MAP estimates of malaria transmission rate at locations in time and space
Introduction to mapping in R, January 2025
An introduction to manipulating spatial data in R with raster, sf, and terra

“Let’s talk about visual clarity”, July 2023
Some introductory slides for a peer-to-peer workshop on visualising research at the Melbourne Math Bio away day
- v2: “Visualising data and other horror stories”, January 2026 For the UCT-CCOAT MARC SE-Africa writing retreat
How to give a great poster presentation, August 2025
Some resources for a workshop on making up a research poster
Lightning talks, April 2026 Some brief pointers on giving lightning talks in preparation for IDDO’s inaugural lightning talk competition