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
malariaAtlaspackage 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 withraster,sf, andterra
Visualisation and presentation skills
- “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