Explore data using R
Learn the basics of data exploration in R for wildlife conservation - September 2024
- Import your data into R, create plots to examine patterns, and calculate summary statistics for reports and scientific publications
- Build your coding skills and confidence
- Suitable for complete beginners, or to refresh your knowledge
- Online course: 2 weeks part-time from 02 September 2024
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:
- ❔ You lack expertise in key skills needed in your job or research
- 🔩 It’s hard to find learning opportunities that focus on building practical knowledge
- 📆 Your schedule is packed, or You have unreliable internet or electricity 🔌
- 🙊 You face language barriers, or study materials aren’t suited to your knowledge levels 😩
- 😟 You experience anxiety and loneliness when studying or working solo
We’re here to help!
About the course
Our 2-week part-time online course Explore data using R is a gentle introduction to using R to organise, inspect and display your data in a visual way
You’ll find this course useful if you need to:
- Create a graph to illustrate your findings in your report, thesis or scientific paper
- Quickly explore data given to you by colleagues, to understand patterns and identify data-entry errors
- Understand and adapt code data-visualisation code written by your colleagues or published online
- Demonstrate your ability to create plots in your degree, for a job application, or for a new role in your organisation
Plotting and analysing your data using code is a fundamental step towards reproducible science, enabling you to share your work so others can build on it
Our course is ideal for complete beginners to coding, or those who want to refresh the basics and build confidence, or switch to using the tidyverse range of R packages, including dplyr and ggplot2
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
Dr Lucy Tallents, Founder and Director of VerdantLearn
Register for the course
Visit the Subscriptions page of VerdantLearn’s community to register:
Course dates
This two-week tutored course starts on Monday 02 September 2024 and ends on Friday 13 September 2024
Study time is 3-5 hours each week. The timing is completely flexible - you can participate whenever it suits you during the week
Course fees and discounts
The fee for this course is 48 GBP
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:
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
Student on GIS for wildlife conservation beginner course
Any questions?
Visit our Frequently Asked Questions, or contact us
So, are you eager to learn how you can explore your data using R…?
Footnotes
World Bank list of countries by income level↩︎