flow_rates: River Flow Data.
In tessington/qsci381: Data used in QSCI 381, University of Washington

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We consider data on river flow rates collected by volunteers of the Pierce Conservation District.

1	flow_rates

A data frame with 31 rows and 3 variables.

site: Location where measurments were taken.
date: Date measurements were taken.
flow: Flow rate of the river in cubic feet per second.

Pierce County Water Data Viewer

boxplot(flow~site, data = flow_rates, main="River Flow Rates",
  xlab = "Site", ylab = expression(paste("Flow (ft"^3*"/s)")))

plot(flow_rates$date, flow_rates$flow, col = as.factor(flow_rates$site),
  main = "Flow Rates Over Time", xlab = "Date",
  ylab = expression(paste("Flow (ft"^3*"/s)")))
legend("topright", title = "Site",
  legend = c("Wildwood Creek Spring", "Silver Creek",
  "Clarks Creek", "Leach Creek"), fill = c("Blue","Green","Black","Red"))