Agenda

Visualization of Time Series
Introduction to Displaying Time Series - Time on the Horizontal Axis - Time as a Conditioning or Grouping Variable - Time as a Complementary Variable - R Packages for time series data: zoo and xts - R Packages for visualization: ggplot2, latticeExtra, and googleVis
Visualization of Spatial Data
Introduction to Displaying Spatial Data - Thematic Maps: Proportional Symbol Mapping, Choropleth Maps, Raster Maps, Vector Fields - Reference and Physical Maps - Packages for working with OpenStreetMap - R Packages for spatial data: sp, maptools, gstat, and rgdal - R Packages for visualization: raster, rasterVis, maps, and googleVis
Visualization of Space-Time Data
Introduction to Displaying Spatiotemporal Data - Spatiotemporal Raster Data - Spatiotemporal Point Observations - R Package spacetime for spatiotemporal data
Trainer

Marco Skulschus (born in Germany in 1978) studied economics in Wuppertal (Germany) and Paris (France) and wrote his master´s thesis about semantic data modeling. He started working as a lecturer and consultant in 2002.
Publications
- Grundlagen empirische Sozialforschung ISBN 978-3-939701-23-1
- System und Systematik von Fragebögen ISBN 978-3-939701-26-2
- Oracle PL/SQL ISBN 978-3-939701-40-8
- MS SQL Server - T-SQL Programmierung und Abfragen ISBN 978-3-939701-69-9
Projects
- He works as an IT-consultant and project manager. He developed various Business Intelligence systems for industry clients and the public sector. For several years now, he is responsible for a BI-team in India which is mainly involved in BI and OLAP projects, reporting systems as well as statistical analysis and Data Mining.
Research
He led several research projects and was leading scientist and project manager of a publicly funded project about interactive questionnaires and online surveys.
