The Challenges of Getting Access to the Data

The data, generally speaking, they come in already really big buckets of data. It wasn't like working directly with Cornell to use E-Bird data sets. It was actually building individual relationships one by one with each scientist and asking them if they would share their data. This is the Audubon Society's for Migration Explorer. But this is really for everyone. And so beyond sort of the scientific community that you called out with it, I want to actually call out our trusty partners here, Blue Raster. They are GIS and application development from based in Virginia. And they were integral to our success and helping sort of bridge all of the data that Melanie and your team were working