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ecotourism: data package containing tourism records and endangered wildlife reports

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Mariam Iftikhar edited this page Mar 22, 2025 · 15 revisions

Background

This project will provide a data package that can be used for teaching. It can be used to teach visualisation of data with maps, temporal data and making basic plots.

Related work

An example package is nycflights13 that contains multiple linked tables. It is motivation to make a similar data set on tourism records related to wildlife sightings available.

Details of your coding project

The project involves

  • pulling records from three different databases, subsetting and organising
  • spatially and temporally match records to provide tables
  • document code for creating and updating the data
  • write a vignette with example usage
  • prepare the package for CRAN submission

Expected impact

Data packages have made substantial impact on the community. They are used in classrooms for teaching, and for examples in published research. A great example is the palmerpenguins.

Mentors

Contributors, please contact mentors below after completing at least one of the tests below.

  • EVALUATING MENTOR: Di Cook [email protected] is the author of numerous R packages including tourr, nullabor, GGally, and has had extensive GSOC experience since 2012.
  • Co-mentor: Lyn Cook [email protected] is an expert in Australian wildlife.

Tests

Contributors, please do one or more of the following tests before contacting the mentors above.

  • Easy: Download the occurrence data of platypus in Australia from the Atlas of Living Australia, and make a map showing the spatial locations of sightings for 2024.
  • Medium: Use the GSODR to download one year of daily weather data including temperature and precipitation for a station in Victoria, Australia near where large numbers of platypus are spotted.
  • Hard: Taking the names of tourism locations described in this variable Stopover state/region/SA2 from the data-raw/domestic_trips_2023-10-08.csv write code to geocode the locations with latitude and longitude.

Solutions of tests

Contributors, please post a link to your test results here.

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