Launch the app: Birding Game of Thrones.
Like identifying birds by ear? Looking for an excuse to rewatch Game of Thrones before the final season comes out in 2019?
Help ID the birds singing and chirping away in the background of the show! I’ve loved noticing Prairie Warblers in the Red Waste and the Dothraki Sea, loons wailing at Riverrun, Northern Cardinals chirping cheerily away in Dorne, and much more. However, there are a lot of bird sounds on this show, and it turns out I just don’t know that many birds.
About This App:
Look at observations across the Game of Thrones world using the Observation Map, or view them in table form at the Observation Table. And of course, Submit Observations of your own! There isn’t a lot of data yet, so the map is simple (it turns out I wildly overestimated the amount of time I would want to spend re-watching Game of Thrones…).
The following resources were indispensible to creating this app:
- The RStudio Superzip example
- Dean Attali’s code for mimicking a Google form in R shiny
- These terrific shapefiles of Westeros and Essos, made available by user cadaei at the Cartographer’s Guild website
Disclaimer: I wrote this purely for fun. The information contained herein is completely non-scientific; some of my IDs may be wrong. You can contact me via twitter, github, or email if you notice a mistake or have any suggestions/ideas. The app is hosted for free on shinyserver.io, so if you lose access (or can’t open the app to begin with), I’ve run out of free server time for the month.