Summary about bbsassistant HOT 1 CLOSED

Brief overview of the breeding birds survey methods? (cited obviously)

• I think that's a good idea, maybe just a sentence or two. We should certainly point to the web addresses

Information on the BBS website/data?

• Yes yes yes
• We should probably also describe (and point to and cite) the BBS analysis and results (webpage, and Sauer et al.).
• Also important I think are the screenshots that are included in the README (and are also in the images folder.

Why we are doing this package? User friendly, R-interface, etc.??

• Mostly to facilitate the ease with which BBS data are accessed and imported into R
• Big points: we are saving a lot of people a lot of time. (1) download the bbs data (as .zip into a temp folder; avoiding the point and click style of downloading the data); (1a) subset these data to remove any unwanted species, locations, etc.; (1b) compress into feather files and save to disk for local storage; (1c) import many .feather BBS state files; (1d) ; (2) web scraping which uniquely allows for retrieval of the credibility measures + the pop trend results

I think we should also include a sentence about the target audience (users of the BBS data... lol).

@GabsPalomo please @ me if you have more questions!

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