GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) is the largest data aggregator of biological occurrences in world. was officially established 2001 and has since aggregated 1.8 billion occurrence records from almost 2000 publishers. relies heavily on Darwin Core (DwC) for organising it receives. Data Processing Pipelines Every single record that gets published to goes through a series three proc...

Copula modelling is a popular tool in analysing the dependencies between variables. allows investigation of tail dependencies, which particular interest risk and survival applications. also specific to economic financial as it can help prediction contagion periods “boom” or “bust”. Bivariate copula has rich variety copulas that may be chosen represent modelled dataset possible extreme events li...