Biodiversity citizen scientists use iNaturalist to post their observations with photographs. The observations are then curated there by crowd-sourcing the identifications and other trait related aspects too. The data once converted to “research grade” is passed on to GBIF as occurrence records. Exciting news from India in 3rd week of ...

R project has been participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) since 2008. We have numerous packages which have received code contributions from GSoC participants. This year too, R is participating and there is already an impressive list of potential projects listed at [https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2018/wiki/table-of-proposed-coding-projects] and ...

By Thiloshon Nagarajah URL of project idea page: https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2017/wiki/Integrating-biodiversity-data-curation-functionality Introduction The importance of data in the biodiversity research has been repeatedly stressed in the recent times and various organizations have come together and followed each other to provide data for advancing biodiversity research. But, ...

Guest Post by Enjie (Jane) LI I have been using bdvis package (version 0.2.9) to visualize the iNaturalist records of RAScals project (http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/rascals). Initially, the mapgrid function in the bdvis version 0.2.9 was written to map the number of records, number of species and completeness in a 1...

This is the fourth part of the of the post where are going to create figure 4 Plot of Inventory Completeness against sample size for grid cells. Part 3 of this series we created chronohorogram for understanding seasonality by year of the data records. If you have not already done so, please ...

This is the third part of the of the post where we are replicating the figures from a paper and in this part we are going to create figure 2 the Chronohorogram. Part 2 of this series we created temporal plot for understanding seasonality of the data records (Figure 1b). If you ...

Continuing from Part 1, in case you have not done so, please set up the data as described before we try to make this temporal polar plot. To create Figure 1b. Graph showing accumulation of records through time (during the year) we need  use function tempolar. This name ‘tempolar’ is simply ...

Recently I got to read the paper about Completeness of Digital Accessible Knowledge DAK by Alex Asase and A. Townsend Peterson. I really enjoyed reading the paper and liked the way the figures are presented. There is a lot of overlap of this with my work on package bdvis (of ...

Package bdvis: Biodiversity data visualizations using R is helpful to understand completeness of biodiversity inventory, extent of geographical, taxonomic and temporal coverage, gaps and biases in data. Package bdvis version 0.2.6 is on CRAN now. This version has several features added since version 0.1.0. I plan to post set of blog entries ...

One of the tasks in my Google Summer of Code 2015 was to integrate new package bdsns with existing package bdvis to identify strengths and gaps in the data. This can be achieved with few simple steps. Begin with opening both libraries Get data for few species of butterflies using bdsns ...

We are happy to announce that package bdvis is on CRAN now. http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bdvis/index.html bdvis: Biodiversity Data Visualizations Biodiversity data visualizations using R would be helpful to understand completeness of biodiversity inventory, extent of geographical, taxonomic and temporal coverage, gaps and biases in ...