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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards : Conference Abstract
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Tomer Gueta‡, Vijay Barve§, Thiloshon Nagarajah|, Ashwin Agrawal¶, Yohay Carmel‡
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Corresponding author: Tomer Gueta (tomer.gu@gmail.com)
Received: 05 Apr 2018 | Published: 22 May 2018
© 2018 Tomer Gueta, Vijay Barve, Thiloshon Nagarajah, Ashwin Agrawal, Yohay Carmel
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Citation: Gueta T, Barve V, Nagarajah T, Agrawal A, Carmel Y (2018) Introducing bdclean: a user friendly biodiversity data cleaning pipeline. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2: e25564. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.25564
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Abstract
A new R package for biodiversity data cleaning, 'bdclean', was initiated in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2017 and is available on github. Several R packages have great data validation and cleaning functions, but 'bdclean' provides features to manage a complete pipeline for biodiversity data cleaning; from data quality explorations, to cleaning procedures and reporting. Users are able go through the quality control process in a very structured, intuitive, and effective way. A modular approach to data cleaning functionality should make this package extensible for many biodiversity data cleaning needs. Under GSoC 2018, 'bdclean' will go through a comprehensive upgrade. New features will be highlighted in the demonstration.
Presenting author
Tomer Gueta
Grant title
ISF Grant No. 127/16
Google Summer of Code program