Nathan Whitmore

R for Conservation and Development Projects (eBook, ePUB)

A Primer for Practitioners

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is bridging the gap for organisations and individuals who need to learn and use R in a part-time professional context, providing a set of skills to understand the usefulness of graphing, mapping, and modelling in R, using relatable examples throughout.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429557255
• Artikelnr.: 60763730

Autorenporträt

Nathan Whitmore is a conservation scientist and practitioner who worked previously as a fisheries observer, and a ranger for the New Zealand Department of Conservation. Between 2012 and 2018 he worked in Papua New Guinea where he provided scientific and project support for the Wildlife Conservation Society's Papua New Guinea programme. His professional interests include evidence- based decision making, sustainable use of wildlife, and traditional natural resource management.

Inhaltsangabe

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