R for conservation and development projects

Realising that there wasn’t a good R resource for conservation and development practitioners I wrote R for Conservation and Development Projects: A Primer for Practitioners which came out in 2021.

The book is available at all major book distributors (kindle, ebook, paper back, and hardback versions) including:

• The Book Depository
• Amazon
• Booktopia

Additionally, I am working on a free bookdown (online) version which should be publicly available in the first months of 2021.

About the book

This book is aimed at conservation and development practitioners who need to learn and use R in a part-time professional context. It gives people with a non-technical background a set of skills to graph, map, and model in R. It also provides background on data integration in project management and covers fundamental statistical concepts. The book aims to demystify R and give practitioners the confidence to use it.

Key Features:

• Viewing data science as part of a greater knowledge and decision making system
• Foundation sections on inference, evidence, and data integration
• Plain English explanations of R functions
• Relatable examples which are typical of activities undertaken by conservation and development organisations in the developing world
• Worked examples showing how data analysis can be incorporated into project reports

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