IVMOOC 2017 - GloBI Data for Interactive Tableau Map of Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Interactions

Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI, www.globalbioticinteractions.org) provides an infrastructure and data service that aggregates and archives known biotic interaction databases to provide easy access to species interaction data. This project explores the coverage of GloBI data against known taxonomic catalogues in order to identify 'gaps' in knowledge of species interactions. We examine the richness of GloBI's datasets using itself as a frame of reference for comparison and explore interaction networks according to geographic regions over time. The resulting analysis and visualizations intend to provide insights that may help to enhance GloBI as a resource for research and education.

Spatial and temporal biotic interactions data were used in the construction of an interactive Tableau map. The raw data (IVMOOC 2017 GloBI Kingdom Data Extracted 2017 04 17.csv) was extracted from the project-specific SQL database server. The raw data was clean and preprocessed (IVMOOC 2017 GloBI Cleaned Tableau Data.csv) for use in the Tableau map. Data cleaning and preprocessing steps are detailed in the companion paper.

The interactive Tableau map can be found here: https://public.tableau.com/profile/publish/IVMOOC2017-GloBISpatialDistributionofInteractions/InteractionsMapTimeSeries#!/publish-confirm

The companion paper can be found here: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.814979

Complementary high resolution visualizations can be found here: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.814922

Project-specific data can be found here: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.804103 (SQL server database)