Analyse data with R

Gain insights from wildlife conservation data

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beginner
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  • Part-time online course, 4 weeks from 21 July 2025
  • Answer conservation questions with data
  • Build your coding skills and confidence
  • Suitable for complete beginners, or to refresh your knowledge

We know that developing technical skills in conservation, and helping others to build and apply their technical capacity can be a challenge. This may be because:

We’re here to help!

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About the course

Our part-time online course Analyse data with R takes you step-by-step through statistical analysis in R, from importing data to understanding and illustrating your findings

Our course is ideal for conservation practitioners, students and trainers who would like to build and strengthen their data analysis and presentation skills

You’ll find this course useful if you need to:

  • Analyse data from your field sites
  • Refresh your knowledge of how to code in R
  • Make evidence-based decisions on conservation action
  • Teach coding or data analysis to your field staff or students

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VerdantLearn’s courses exist because I want to make it easy for conservationists all over the world to use powerful coding tools to understand and communicate their conservation research and action

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Dr Lucy Tallents, Founder and Director of VerdantLearn

Register for the course

Visit the Subscriptions page of VerdantLearn’s community to register:

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Course dates

This four-week tutored course starts on Mon 21 July 2025 and ends on Fri 15 August 2025

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Study time is 4-6 hours each week. The timing is completely flexible - you can participate whenever it suits you during the week

Course fee and discounts

The fee for this course is 144 GBP

This includes:

  • Access to all the learning materials
  • Access to a private discussion area on our learning community
  • A 30 minute one-to-one session with your tutur, for expert advice tailored to your needs

We offer generous discounts (up to 90% off!) to those who can’t afford the standard course fee:

  • Conservationists from low- or middle-income countries1
  • Students and currently unwaged

Everyone gets access to the same learning activities and support. If you or your organisation can afford it, paying the higher fee enables VerdantLearn to keep offering courses at affordable prices for everyone. This supports the efforts of conservationists globally, and increases the diversity of learners on our courses, so you benefit too!

To find out what discount you’re eligible for, and gain a coupon code, please complete the form on our discount enquiries page:

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The best thing was to be able to see other people’s work and have discussions with them. It is motivating to see other people’s research work!
I did learn a lot from this short course. It is nice to run this course at my own pace

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Any questions?

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So, are you eager to move from conservation data to insights…?

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