Bill Dimensions of Penguins

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Bill dimensions of brush-tailed penguins

The data on bill dimension of brush-tailed penguins were collected from 2007 - 2009 by Dr. Kristen Gorman with the Palmer Station Longer Term Ecological Research Program, part of the US Long Term Ecological Research Network. The so-called palmerpenguins data set contains size measurements, clutch observations, and blood isotope ratios for three penguin species of the genus Pygoscelis, the brush-tailed penguins, observed on three islands in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica over a study period of three years.

The goal of the palmerpenguins data set is to provide a great dataset for data exploration & visualization, as an alternative to the iris data set. The iris data is a famous and often used multivariate data set introduced by the British statistician, eugenicist, and biologist Ronald fisher in his 1936 paper "The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems as an example of linear discriminant analysis". It is sometimes called Anderson's Iris data set because Edgar Anderson collected the data to quantify the morphologic variation of Iris flowers of three related species.