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Loading Data - Squirrel Census

Alexis Caira

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Last edited Sep 04, 2025
Created on Sep 03, 2025
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This data is from The Squirrel Census and reflects data collected about squirrel sightings across 24 parks in New York City on March 4th, 2022. It was ran by 72 volunteers and NYC Open Data. There are 433 sightings counted.

The paper can be read here and is a fun read: https://www.thesquirrelcensus.com/data

Attributes include the following:

  • Area name: categorical nominal (sections of NY)
  • Area ID: nominal qualitative
  • Park name: categorical nominal
  • Park ID: nominal qualitative (numbered to represent a place)
  • Squirrel ID: nominal qualitative
  • Primary fur color: categorical
  • Highlights fur color: categorical
  • Color notes: categorical
  • Location: categorical
  • Above Ground: quantitative
  • Activities: categorical
  • Interactions with humans: categorical
  • Squirrel lat: latitude coordinates (DD.DDDDDD format)
  • Squirrel long: longitude coordinate (-DD.DDDDDD format)
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