User: | Open Learning Faculty Member:
I had some issues with organizing my data, since it came from a crowd-sourced database. First, I had to decide which genera to include in the data set, and I decided on the three most commonly sighted. Then, I had to select the data that I was concerned with, being the coordinates of each sighting. From there, I used the coordinates to identify the elevation that each sighting was recorded at. Then, I used the number of sightings and elevation to form my graph, with elevation on the x-axis. The results were pretty much as expected, and similar but less evident trends to the graph I created with my predictions earlier on. Due to the small sample size that was available from the iNaturalist database, I would like to collect much more data and examine how the trends on the graph change. I would expect that they would be similar to what is present now but would be much more defined.
