beats_bw190918_62R: Heart rate of a blue whale
In beats: Heartbeat Detection in Electrocardiogram Data

A dataset containing the heart rate record of a blue whale, collected 2019-09-18 off the coast of Big Sur, CA under NMFS permit no. 16111.

1	beats_bw190918_62R

A data frame with 59 rows and five variables:

timestamp: time of heart beat, in POSIXct format
ecg: value from ECG recorder at peak voltage (see ecg_bw190918_62R)
period_s: period in seconds to next heart beat. NA if followed by a gap.
freq_hz: frequency of heart beat in Hz (inverse of period_s)
freq_bpm: frequency of heart beat in beats-per-minute

Goldbogen, J. A., Cade, D. E., Calambokidis, J., Czapanskiy, M. F., Fahlbusch, J., Friedlaender, A. S., … Ponganis, P. J. (2019). Extreme bradycardia and tachycardia in the world’s largest animal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(50), 25329–25332. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1914273116

beats documentation built on March 26, 2020, 5:51 p.m.