Example analyses with the data

About the data

There are several data sets in the package:

cuttlefish: occurrences of giant cuttlefish; links to weather and tourism by stnid
tourism: quarterly counts of different types of tourism, holiday, visiting family, business, other; links to weather by stnid
weather: daily min and max temperature records
oz_lga: spatial polygon map of Australian local government areas (LGAs)
stations: weather station id’s and spatial coordinates matching the occurrence data, stnid is key for linking data sets.

The weather data is used to understand if the sightings tend to happen when it is dry, or not to hot or cold.

The tourism records are to examine whether tourists might be visiting at peak sighting times.