4  Lab Exercise 8

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In this exercise, you will use the skills from this lab and previous labs to visualize some spatial data and use it to address a research question:

What is the most prominent primate family found in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso?

You have two datasets in the data folder to use for this exercise:

• A shapefile, brazilStates.shp, that is polygon spatial data for the states of Brazil (source: Natural Earth)

• A CSV file, primateObservations.csv, that is table data of primate observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), covering all of South America.

In this assignment, you will generate two visualizations:

• the frequency of different primate families observed in the state of Mato Grosso

• the spatial distribution of primate observations in Brazil, with an emphasis on primate families in Mato Grosso

For both of these figures, the goal is to highlight the most prevalent species observed in Mato Grosso.

Submit your assignment as a Quarto document using the form on Canvas. Details about assessment are posted there.