Articles • naturecounts

The NatureCounts Intro Tutorial

An R walkthrough on how to import, explore, and visualize NatureCounts data.

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Loading R Packages
Chapter 3 - Understanding and Viewing Data
Chapter 4 - Downloading and Filtering Data
Chapter 5 - Data Manipulation
Chapter 6 - Data Visualization
Chapter 7 - Answers

The NatureCounts Spatial Data Tutorial

An R guide to help download, process, and visualize spatial data, including NatureCounts surveys, conservation areas, and environmental layers.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Spatial Data Exploration
Chapter 2 - Spatial Subsetting
Chapter 3 - Climate Data
Chapter 4 - Elevation Data
Chapter 5 - Land Cover Data
Chapter 6 - Satellite Imagery
Chapter 7 - Spatial Summary Tools

The NatureCounts Analysis Tools Tutorial

An R guide to help analyze data hosted on NatureCounts.

Chapter 1 - Zero-filling
Chapter 2 - Auxiliary Tables

Additional Tutorials

How-to articles describing common tasks

Data Access
Selecting columns and fields to download
Filtering data after download
Using spatial data to filter observations
Exploring IBAs and BCRs
Mapping Observations

Reference

Reference articles for metadata codes and descriptions.

Region Codes
Species codes

Formating

How to format downloaded data

Zero-filling data