Please answer accurately rather than optimistically.
A place offered to someone who cannot take it up is a place lost to another applicant.
Your details
An institutional address is preferred where you have one.
Start with + and your country code. A number beginning
0 cannot be dialled from outside your country.
Eligibility
Four practical questions. Please answer accurately — a place you cannot take up
is a place another applicant could have used.
We release seats only once, shortly before the workshop, so an unfilled place is
usually a wasted one.
Your experience and plans
These answers help us judge whether the course suits your current work. Answer
honestly — the course caters for a range of backgrounds and there is no advantage
in overstating.
Honesty check
Which of these R functions have you used yourself?
Please read. Some of the names below are not real R functions.
Claiming one costs you more than admitting you do not know it. We are not
expecting anyone to know all of them — an accurate picture helps us support you better.
Function
Used it myself
Heard of it
Don't know it
Knowledge check
Your application is already submitted. This last step is scored and
shown to the panel alongside everything else you have written — it is not a gate,
and a low score does not withdraw your application.
per question — the countdown is enforced by the server.
You cannot go back, and the check cannot be restarted.
Each applicant gets a different draw of questions, with the
answer options shuffled.
You are not told which answers were right — only your final score.
Answer from your own knowledge. The point is to place you on the course, not to
filter people out on trivia.
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Knowledge check complete
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Your own work
Three short answers, your motivation and your CV. These are read by the selection
panel — please answer in your own words. The timed knowledge check comes after this.
Say what one row represents, roughly how many rows, the time period, and how location
is recorded (GPS coordinates, district names, a grid, or something else). About 80 words.
Any code at all — cleaning, plotting, modelling. Add one line saying what it was for.
If you have never written R code, write “none” — this will not disqualify you.
About 40 words.
Motivation and expectations
Up to 300 words.
Up to 300 words.
Your CV
PDF only, at most 2 pages and 5 MB.
Word documents are not accepted — export to PDF first.
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