Canadian Wind Turbines
The data this week comes from the Government of Canada.
H/t to Will Noel, Tim Weis and Andrew Leach for collecting the data. Blake Shaffer and Alyssa Goldberg for visualizing and sharing!
Canada’s National Observer Article on this dataset.
Get the data here
# Get the Data
# Read in with tidytuesdayR package
# Install from CRAN via: install.packages("tidytuesdayR")
# This loads the readme and all the datasets for the week of interest
# Either ISO-8601 date or year/week works!
tuesdata <- tidytuesdayR::tt_load('2020-10-27')
tuesdata <- tidytuesdayR::tt_load(2020, week = 44)
wind_turbine <- tuesdata$wind-turbine
# Or read in the data manually
wind_turbine <- readr::read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/main/data/2020/2020-10-27/wind-turbine.csv')Data Dictionary
wind-turbine.csv
| variable | class | description |
|---|---|---|
| objectid | double | Unique ID |
| province_territory | character | Province/territory |
| project_name | character | Project name |
| total_project_capacity_mw | double | Electrical capacity in megawatts |
| turbine_identifier | character | Turbine ID |
| turbine_number_in_project | character | Turbine number in project |
| turbine_rated_capacity_k_w | double | Turbine capacity in kilowatts |
| rotor_diameter_m | double | Rotor diameter in meters |
| hub_height_m | double | Hub height in meters |
| manufacturer | character | Manufacturer |
| model | character | Model ID |
| commissioning_date | character | Commission date |
| latitude | double | Latitude |
| longitude | double | Longitude |
| notes | character | Notes about the data |
Cleaning Script
No cleaning!