Assignment

How to proceed

In this unit, we have learnt how to upscale plant species richness data. Now it’s your turn

• Start gathering all the datasets
• Make them analysis-ready
• Try out the shown workflow and see if it works for you
• Start modifying the workflow based on your chosen research project Source: ‘Piled Higher and Deeper’ by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com

Additional reading

To understand how the upscaled data becomes useful for designing policies and decision making, and to understand what are the different caveats in global modeling, I recommend reading this interesting paper. Global modeling of nature’s contributions to people, Kramer et al 2019. The pdf version of the paper was also added to ILIAS.

Try to answer the following

• What trends are seen in Fig 2. of the paper?

Source: Kramer et al 2019

• What are the future scenarios discussed and what are they based on?
• Which parts of the world are shown as the most disadvantaged across all scenarios and why?

Preparation for the next session

• Select a video on machine learning from here, and explain in your words to others about what you understood from it.