openwashdata / wasteskipsblantyre

Locations of 53 public waste skips in Blantyre, Malawi.

wasteskipsblantyre

The goal of wasteskipsblantyre is to provide a dataset for research and planning of solid waste management in Blantyre, Malawi. The dataset includes locations of the publicly accessible waste skips in in the city. The data was collected in 2021 and has not been updated since.

Installation

You can install the development version of wasteskipsblantyre from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("openwashdata/wasteskipsblantyre")

Alternatively, you can download the individual datasets as a CSV or XLSX file from the table below.

dataset	CSV	XLSX
wasteskipsblantyre	Download CSV	Download XLSX

Project goal

Data on the location of public waste skips in Blanytre was not available. Without such data, it becomes difficult to develop a solid waste management plan and logistics. The goal of this project was to identify the locations of public waste skips in Blantyre, Malawi.

Data

The data set includes the locations of the publicly accessible waste skips in Blantyre, Malawi. The data was collected in 2021.

library(wasteskipsblantyre)

The wasteskipsblantyre data set has 4 variables and 53 observations. For an overview of the variable names, see the following table.

wasteskipsblantyre

variable_name	variable_type	description
name	character	Name of the waste skip location.
long	double	Longitude of the location as decimal degrees.
lat	double	Latitude of the location as decimal degrees.
capacity_l	double	Capacity of the container in liters.

Locations of waste skips in this dataset

Example

The code below is an example which shows how you could use the data to prepare a map in R. Find this and more examples in the prepared examples article (vignette("examples")).

library(wasteskipsblantyre)
library(sf)
library(tmap)

# read data set into a simple feature (spatial vector data)
sf_wsb <- st_as_sf(wasteskipsblantyre, coords = c('long', 'lat'), crs = 4326)
# set mapping mode to interactive ("view")
tmap_mode("view")
# create an interactive map 
qtm(sf_wsb)

Screenshot of the an interactive map with OpenStreetMap layer.

License

Data are available as CC-BY.

Citation

Please cite using:

citation("wasteskipsblantyre")
#> To cite package 'wasteskipsblantyre' in publications use:
#> 
#>   Yesaya M, Msuku L, Tilley E, Loos S (2023). "wasteskipsblantyre:
#>   Locations of Public Waste Skips in Blantyre, Malawi."
#>   doi:10.5281/zenodo.6470427 <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6470427>,
#>   <https://openwashdata.github.io/wasteskipsblantyre/>.
#> 
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#> 
#>   @Misc{yesayamsuku:2023,
#>     title = {wasteskipsblantyre: Locations of Public Waste Skips in Blantyre, Malawi},
#>     author = {Mabvuto Yesaya and Limbani Msuku and Elizabeth Tilley and Sebastian Camilo Loos},
#>     year = {2023},
#>     url = {https://openwashdata.github.io/wasteskipsblantyre/},
#>     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6470427},
#>     abstract = {An R data package containing the locations of public waste skips in Blantyre, Malawi.},
#>     version = {0.0.2},
#>   }

wasteskipsblantyre's Issues

Include interactive maps

Hey @larnsce

Just for your information... This is the box that should appear when you hover over the map image.

I defined the box in the figure attributes. It appears when I knit the example file but not when I build the site using pkgdown (also not locally). So there might also be a problem...

I got the idea from the get started article of the tmap package documentation. I Just thought that if not even they include the interactive maps, it's just not possible right now. And by inserting the screenshots inlcuding the box, the cross references could still be used.

In order to include the interactive maps I would just sacrifice the cross references and:

• change the output back to default (delete these lines)
• change eval to true for the map- code junks
• delete screenshots
• and replace cross references to something like "figure below".

There is no need to actually change it I just wanted to give you all the information I gathered so far.

I also add the links to the cross-reference discussions you send to the element chat:
See a related discussion here: r-lib/pkgdown#323
Seems to work for vignettes: r-lib/pkgdown#2201

Cross referencing is not working

I've tried several methods to implement cross references of the plots to the text parts of the rmd-files.

Unfortunately, none of the methods I tried worked out.

Share author details

Hi @n-raspi, I need:

• first name
• surname
• email
• ORCID iD from you

Thanks

Prepare data dictionary for skips and poi data resources

Hi @n-raspi, thanks for sharing the data. I have prepared the structure for the data package to be updated. Currently working on a dev branch.

Could you please:

1. Add a concise one sentence description to each variable, staring with captial letter and ending with a period. No commas.

Option 1

-Download: https://github.com/openwashdata/wasteskipsblantyre/blob/dev/data-raw/dictionary.xlsx

• Fill out locally
• Upload and overwrite: https://github.com/openwashdata/wasteskipsblantyre/blob/dev/data-raw/dictionary.xlsx

Option 2

• Clone the repo and and on dev branch, edit the XLSX

Add an example snippet on the homepage of the website

• add a nice plot from example page
• add example page link

"Reference" as button for the main menu navigation in the header

@larnsce and @mianzg

I was just asking myself if [Function Refernce](https://openwashdata.github.io/wasteskipsblantyre/reference/index.html) is the right title for this page?

Wouldn't "data sets" or something similar be more appropriate?

Either way, I'm not sure how much can/should do about it. According to an open issue from (2022-08) in the pkgdown repo we would have to provide a custom template for this page.

Fix download buttons on the website

The download button are referring to the wrong links now.

Once links are fixed, the csv file will pop up in a browser instead of being downloaded.

Potential solutions:

1. Download CSV file