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Snapshot Serengeti Faculty Mentoring Network, Summer 2022

Author(s): Peter Ersts1, Jeffrey A Klemens2, Drew LaMar3, Suzanne Macey1, Ann E Russell4, Edward Waisanen5, Charles Willis6

1. American Museum of Natural History 2. Thomas Jefferson University 3. College of William and Mary 4. Iowa State University 5. University of Michigan 6. University of Minnesota

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The goal of our summer 2022 FMN was to develop a client-side interactive dashboard that allowed students to visualize and analyze data from the Snapshot Serengeti camera-trap research project.

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Version 2.0 - published on 23 Jul 2023 doi:10.25334/XPYT-AM47 - cite this

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The goal of our summer 2022 FMN was to develop a client-side interactive dashboard that allowed students to visualize and analyze data from the Snapshot Serengeti camera-trap research project. We developed two alternative versions of the dashboard, one using JavaScript and another using the Quarto publishing system. Both versions are client-side, fully functional, compatible across multiple browsers, and freely available.

The version of the data dashboard that was replaced was a server-based R-shiny app with limited scalability. The development of these dashboards will allow for easier dissemination of the lab module to students and instructors. A secondary product of this FMN was to develop a guide so that module authors who possess R-skills but limited understanding of the limitations of server-side approaches such as R-shiny can develop online, interactive components with scalability in mind from the outset.

The team created an OCELOTS GitHub organization (https://github.com/ocelots-rcn), and repositories for these open-access software interactives:

Snapshot Serengeti Dashboard

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Interactives: Pure JavaScript / Published with Quarto

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Support was provided by: A grant from the United States National Science Foundation (DBI-RCN-UBE 2120141).

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