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Example queries

Things you can ask your agent once BAIT is loaded. Each links to the matching cookbook recipe (the standardized answer the agent uses and adapts).

Data questions

  • “What is the largest cod in the database?” → largest-cod
  • “How many haddock were measured per year on the surveys?”
  • “Which cruises sampled Greenland halibut in 2023?”
  • “List the species caught on the winter survey.”

Maps

  • “Make a map of cusk caught on the EggaN surveys.” → map-cusk-eggan
  • “Map all spurdog in ICES areas 1 and 2.” → pigghaa-ices-1-2
  • “Interactive leaflet map of cod catches, coloured by year.”
  • “Catch-composition pie charts per station for the coastal survey.” → catch-composition-coastal

Life-history

  • “Make a maturity ogive for ling using Coastal survey data.” → maturity-ogive-ling-coastal
  • “Fit a von Bertalanffy growth curve for redfish and give me L∞ and K.”
  • “Length–weight relationship for saithe, with the a and b parameters.”

Dashboards

  • “Launch BioticExplorer so I can browse the data.”
  • “Build me a small Shiny dashboard to filter catches by species and map them.”

Maintenance

  • “Set up the Biotic database.”
  • “Update the database to the latest data.”
NoteThe list grows

Every new question your team solves can become a recipe. See Contributing.