Mo(Wa)²TER Data Science Workshop Material

These are the materials developed for the Mo(Wa)²TER Data Science workshop, which is designed for upper level and graduate students in environmental engineering or industry professionals in the water and wastewater treatment (W/WWT) fields. Working through this material will improve a learner’s data analysis and programming skills with the free R language and will focus exclusively on problems arising in W/WWT. Training in basic R coding, data cleaning, visualization, data analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning are provided. Real W/WWT examples and exercises are given with each topic to strengthen and deepen comprehension. These materials aim to equip students with the skills to handle data science challenges in their future careers. Materials were developed over three offerings of this workshop in 2021, 2022, and 2023. At the time of publication, all code runs, but we provide no guarantees on future versions of R or packages used in this workshop.