3 Data

BigQuery data have a three level structure: projects, datasets, and tables. There are two main projects that you should have access to: world-fishing-827 and emlab-gcp. The GFW data lives in the world-fishing-827 project and core datasets and tables are discussed further below. The GFW GitHub repository bigquery-documentation-wf827 has lots of useful information and examples for working with GFW data. You must have a GitHub account and be added to the repository in order to view the page. If you do not have access please reach out to Tyler Clavelle at GFW. The emlab-gcp project is where any scratch datasets and project specific tables should be saved. Functions to create and save tables to BigQuery are detailed in Section 4.2.3. No direct changes should be made to GFW datasets or tables in the world-fishing-827 project.