diff --git a/.devcontainer/Dockerfile b/.devcontainer/Dockerfile
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+# Pre-built Dev Container Image for R. More info: https://github.com/rocker-org/devcontainer-images/pkgs/container/devcontainer%2Ftidyverse
+# Available R version: 4, 4.1, 4.0
+ARG VARIANT="4.2"
+FROM ghcr.io/rocker-org/devcontainer/tidyverse:${VARIANT}
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        software-properties-common \
+        libudunits2-dev \
+        libgdal-dev \
+        libgeos-dev \
+        libproj-dev
+
+RUN add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ppa -y \
+        && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gdal-bin
+
+RUN pip uninstall Jinja2
+
+# Install Python packages
+COPY requirements.txt /tmp/pip-tmp/
+RUN python3 -m pip --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir install -r /tmp/pip-tmp/requirements.txt
diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
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+{
+	"name": "R Data Science Environment",
+	"build": {
+		"dockerfile": "Dockerfile",
+		// Update VARIANT to pick a specific R version: 4, 4.1, 4.0
+		// More info: https://github.com/rocker-org/devcontainer-images/pkgs/container/devcontainer%2Ftidyverse
+		"args": { "VARIANT": "4" }
+	},
+
+	"customizations": {
+		"vscode": {
+			"extensions": [
+				// Add Jupyter and Python vscode extensions
+				"ms-toolsai.jupyter",
+				"ms-toolsai.jupyter-renderers",
+				"ms-python.python",
+				"ms-python.vscode-pylance"
+				//"vsls-contrib.codetour",
+				//"GitHub.copilot"
+			]
+		}
+	},
+
+	// Forward Jupyter and RStudio ports
+	"forwardPorts": [8888],
+	"portsAttributes": {
+		//"8787": {
+		//	"label": "Rstudio",
+		//	"requireLocalPort": true,
+		//	"onAutoForward": "ignore"
+		//},
+		"8888": {
+			"label": "Jupyter",
+			"requireLocalPort": true,
+			"onAutoForward": "ignore"
+		}
+	},
+
+	// Use 'postAttachCommand' to run commands after the container is started.
+	//"postAttachCommand": "sudo rstudio-server start"
+
+	// Uncomment to connect as root instead. More info: https://aka.ms/dev-containers-non-root
+	// "remoteUser": "root"
+}
diff --git a/.devcontainer/requirements.txt b/.devcontainer/requirements.txt
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+pybryt
+pylint
+datascience
+otter-grader
+numpy
+pandas
+scipy
+folium>=0.9.1
+matplotlib
+ipywidgets>=7.0.0
+bqplot
+nbinteract>=0.0.12
+okpy
+scikit-learn
+Rtree
+GDAL
+Fiona
+pyproj
+Shapely
+geopandas
+mapclassify
+jupyter