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R for Conservation and Development Projects

A Primer for Practitioners

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-367-20548-5
Verlag: Bsp Books Pvt. Ltd.
Erscheinungstermin: 22.12.2020
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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

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780367205485
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-367-20548-5
  • Verlag: Bsp Books Pvt. Ltd.
  • Erscheinungstermin: 22.12.2020
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
  • Serie: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 540 g
  • Seiten: 390
  • Format (B x H x T): 155 x 231 x 23 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Whitmore, Nathan

1. Introduction 2. Inference and Evidence 3. Data integration in project management 4. Getting started in R 5. Introduction to data frames 6. The Waihi project 7. ggplot2: graphing with the tidyverse 8. Customising a ggplot 9. Data wrangling 10. Data cleaning 11. Working with dates and time 12. Working with spatial data 13. Common R code mistakes and quirks 14. Basic statistical concepts 15. Understanding linear models 16. Extensions to linear models 17. Introduction to clustering and classification 18. Reporting and worked examples 19. Epilogue