Split tutorial

[jlehtoma]

Tutorial should be split into basic and advanced.

[jlehtoma]

Should we fix everything else first and then split the tutorial or split it first and then fix the respective repos?

[Tuulit]

I would perhaps do the latter (split first), with this justification:

• Splitting tasks to smaller pieces just make their finalization easier.
• (If I reckon right,) most of the other training materials (videos, short instructions, ppts) refer to the basic parts of the tutorial, after that is done, it would be possible to divide the tasks of: 1) checking the PPT files (downscaling images, checking references to tutorial, etc) 2) Making the videos with the tutorial material 3) creating the instruction pages with links to the videos etc.

[jlehtoma]

Okay, let's do the split first. It could be done by just using folder hierarchy while still keeping everything in one repo.

[jlehtoma]

ping @Tuulit @PKullberg @fedemp-gh

Which variants (i.e. old bat-files -> new variants) should be included in basic and advanced tutorials? I've done a preliminary split in variants.md. Some cases are straight forward, others are not. E.g. should species-of-special-interest (do_ssi.bat) be included? What about variants demonstrating technical functionality of Zonation, such as do_multiple.bat and do_load.bat.

I would go for maybe 5-6 simple variants, leaving everything else for the advanced tutorial.

[jlehtoma]

Basic variants 01-05 now in place and tested (using Zig3), lacks variant-specific documentation.

[jlehtoma]

Atte wrote:

Basic could imo have

• ABF/CAZ/TBF (note targets should indeed be here)
• +DS/BLP
• something with positively & negatively weighted features
• Hierarchical PAN expansion

Some of these could perhaps be combined to reduce number of setups, like

• CAZ
• ABF+DS
• TBF+BLP (=marxan)
• Hierarchical ABF, with weights?

All else could be "advanced".

[jlehtoma]

Introducing one analysis feature at a time enables the user to compare different solutions and see what actually changed and how. On the other hand Atte's 2nd listing above are realistic combinations that are directly useful for user in building new analysis.

[FedeMPouzols]

So the (work minimizing) list of basic examples would be?

• ABF (same as current do_abf)
• CAZ (same as current do_zig)
• TBF (new one, I can prepare one, and it should be added in the manual)
• basic+BLP (current do_blp)
• basic+DS (current do_ds)
• basic+ negative weights => NEW1, currently there's only one setup with negative weights (do_w_alu, not very nice at first look)
• Hierarchical removal mask (current do_rs)
• Then maybe a pseudo-marxan with TBF+BLP?

Note: To avoid changing screenshots, etc. let's try to keep the same settings unless something needs to change.
I think that only TBF and NEW1 require a bit of extra work. At least TBF should be added into the tutorial chapter of the manual. And I guess that NEW1 would also be a good addition there (referring to the other sections of the manual that talk about + and - weights for balancing competing land uses).

[jlehtoma]

Sounds good. All the other variants are in place, except do_rs (can be added immediately), TBF (needs work), and NEW1 (needs work).

[jlehtoma]

Note that do_rs.bat uses CAZ, not ABF (+weights+DS). New variant 05_hierarchical_removal_mask added in 669ff9c