Markus, Thank you and that makes sense. I'll have to take a closer look at the demo site as it looks very promising.
Regards, Srini *Srini Anand* (513) 518 1970 srianand at indiana.edu On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Markus D?ring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote: > Hi Srini, > > the species count on the species page represents the species our backbone > taxonomy contains for this phylum regardless whether we have occurrences or > not. > The distinct species in your occurrences are less cause for some species > we do not have any evidence. > Btw, in the upcoming portal you can see the list of distinct, accepted > species right away: > https://demo.gbif.org/occurrence/species?taxon_key=79 (select species > instead of table view) > > Best, > Markus > > On 4 Apr 2017, at 18:06, Srini Anand <srianand at umail.iu.edu> wrote: > > Hello, > I'm a student from Indiana University, working towards a Masters in Data > Science. As part of a class project, we are working with the team from > Global Biointeractions (GloBI) to compare how much their data covers the > known species list. To that end we are using GBIF as the reference system. > > I have worked out the details of navigating your site and extracting > information for us to compare against. However, I'm unable to reconcile > counts between the download and what I see on the species page. > > *Mismatch in species count* > Using Kingdom = Archaea and Phylum = Crenarchaeota > <http://www.gbif.org/species/79>, I navigated to the Occurrences page and > downloaded the 3,824 occurrences. When I extract unique Species from this > list, there are 59, whereas the main page indicates there should be 68. > > I see a similar issue with > a) Kingdom = Archaea (should be 523, see 485) > b) Class = Pinopsida (should be 2,366 species, but see 983) > > There is probably a small and obvious mistake I'm making, but not sure I > know how to identify that. > > > Any guidance would be must appreciated. > > Regards, > *Srini Anand* > Masters of Data Science student > srianand at indiana.edu > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20170406/c198dd6a/attachment.html>
