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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/master/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!