sightings_bad: Sightings - Bad Data Management

Description Usage Format

Description

Contains bird observations with bad formatting

Usage

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Format

A data.frame with the following columns:

Observer: Initials of observer - Note inconsistency of capitalization. Furthermore, initials may not always be unique

Location: Title or Initials of Location - Note differences of records.

Lat: Latitude

Lon: Longitude

SPECIES: Species Abbreviation - Why is SPECIES in all caps?

Date: Date without time - Note inconsistency in format

Time: Time of observation - Note that some have another date from 1899

distance(m): Distance from bird when observed - Unit in column name?

How recognized?: What technique was used to recgonize the bird - Why is there a question mark in the column name?

making sound: Boolean value denoting if the bird was making sound.

comments: Miscellaneous comments - Note the one entry of "none"


clabuzze/dataManagement documentation built on Sept. 8, 2020, 10:37 a.m.