Monthly Environmental and Microbial Data for Oil Contamination Studies

Monthly measurements of temperature, encoded location, oil type, and bacterial species counts were collected at various sites. The dataset, 5.5 KB in size, was authored by Tong Gao and last updated on March 19, 2026. It includes encoded variables for location and oil type, with bacterial counts for 503 identified species.

Use Cases

• Predicting oil contamination levels based on encoded location and temperature data.
• Analyzing correlations between specific bacterial species (Bac 1 to Bac 503) and oil types.
• Stress testing machine learning models on sparse microbial data as described.
• Studying seasonal patterns in microbial communities using the encoded month variable.

Strengths

• Includes bacterial counts for 503 identified species, providing a detailed microbial profile.
• Data was collected at monthly intervals, suggesting a time-series structure.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for open use.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics for encoded values must be inferred after download.
• Location and oil type columns are unitless encoded values, requiring decoding for interpretability.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Tong Gao.

Collection Method

Environmental and biological measurements collected at various locations and times.

Time Range

Data collected at monthly intervals; specific date range is not provided.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 17:38:40; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Various locations; coordinates are encoded, so specific geography is not directly interpretable.