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)