2018 Central Park Squirrel Census - Squirrel Data
The Squirrel Census (https://www.thesquirrelcensus.com/) is a multimedia science, design, and storytelling project focusing on the Eastern gray (Sciurus carolinensis). They count squirrels and present their findings to the public. This table contains squirrel data for each of the 3,023 sightings, including location coordinates, age, primary and secondary fur color, elevation, activities, communications, and interactions between squirrels and with humans.
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Freshness
The publisher's promise
How the agency that publishes this data says it keeps the data current.
Dormant
- Says it updates
- Historical data
- Actually updates about every
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- Publisher last updated the data
- Oct 18, 2019
Our mirror
Whether our copy of this data is current with the source.
In sync
- We last synced
- Oct 18, 2019, 1:54 PM
- Rows in our copy
- 3,023
- Rows at the source
- 3,023
- Our copy trails the source by
- under a minute
Columns
Each source column, with the name and type we use to store it.
The publisher has not provided a data dictionary.
0 of 36 columns carry a concept; 30 carry a description from the publisher. Read the concept column before you join. A column with no concept carries no claim from us, and a name that looks like a key is not one.
| Source field | Display name | What the publisher says it is | Concept | Source type | Stored as | Stored type | Row identifier | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
y | Y | Latitude coordinate for squirrel sighting point | Not bound | Number | y | numeric | — | |
x | X | Longitude coordinate for squirrel sighting point | Not bound | Number | x | numeric | — | |
hectare | Hectare | ID tag, which is derived from the hectare grid used to divide and count the park area. One axis that runs predominantly north-to-south is numerical (1-42), and the axis that runs predominantly east-to-west is roman characters (A-I). | Not bound | Text | hectare | text | — | |
primary_fur_color | Primary Fur Color | Value is either "Gray," "Cinnamon" or "Black." | Not bound | Text | primary_fur_color | text | — | |
indifferent | Indifferent | Squirrel was indifferent to human presence. | Not bound | Checkbox | indifferent | boolean | — | |
chasing | Chasing | Squirrel was seen chasing another squirrel. | Not bound | Checkbox | chasing | boolean | — | |
:@computed_region_yeji_bk3q | Borough Boundaries | The publisher describes this column nowhere. | Not bound | Number | :@computed_region_yeji_bk3q | numeric | — | |
age | Age | Value is either "Adult" or "Juvenile." | Not bound | Text | age | text |
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Source and attribution
Where this data comes from, which version we hold, and what we changed.
- Source
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/vfnx-vebw
- Version
- Content hash:
947d5e9f0206a552b8e48a400eab09e5ec8d0d73922fd6d8d37376d2ecf00b2a - What we changed
- We did not change the data. We stored it as published.
- Publisher
- codenownyc
- We retrieved it
- Oct 18, 2019, 1:54 PM
Update history
| Started | Kind | Result | Rows written | Produced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2026, 4:15 AM | full_replace | success | 3,023 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.73 |