Two Open-Source R-based Tools to Help Water Quality Monitoring Programs Perform Quality Control (QC) Procedures, Summarize, and Visualize Continuous Sensor Data
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ContDataQC and ContDataSumViz are two open-source R-based tools to help water quality monitoring programs perform quality control (QC) procedures, summarize, and visualize continuous sensor data. These tools were developed using R Shiny and are web-based applications that help users more easily and in a structured manor QC and visualize temporal and spatial patterns in continuous water quality data collected from streams. ContDataQC helps people who don’t have a formal process for QCing their data, is used to calculate summary statistics on QC’d continuous sensor data, for any sensors, and customization is possible. ContDataSumViz helps users who need assistance analyzing their continuous datasets to explore temporal patterns, provides a streamlined, reproducible approach for summarizing and visualizing complex and large temporal datasets, and helps assess temporal correlations between different parameters.