# Palmer Archipelago (Antarctica) penguin data


> The goal of palmerpenguins is to provide a great dataset for data exploration & visualization, as an alternative to `iris`.


\- [source](https://github.com/allisonhorst/palmerpenguins/)



Source:
Horst AM, Hill AP, Gorman KB (2020). palmerpenguins: Palmer Archipelago (Antarctica) penguin data. R package version 0.1.0. https://allisonhorst.github.io/palmerpenguins/


Data originally published: Gorman KB, Williams TD, Fraser WR (2014). Ecological sexual dimorphism and environmental variability within a community of Antarctic penguins (genus Pygoscelis). PLoS ONE 9(3):e90081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0090081

bitdotio/palmerpenguins

public

bill_length_mm

bill_depth_mm

flipper_length_mm

body_mass_g

year

penguin species (Adélie, Chinstrap, or Gentoo)

species

island in Paler archipelago (Biscoe, Dream, or Torgersen)

island

Measurements of 344 penguins of three different species from three islands in the Palmer archipelago.