Biodiversity index calculation: Comparison of two types of programming

Abstract

This document presents a tool for calculating a biodiversity index. The algorithm has been defined and allowed the implementation of an application that met the specifications defined in 2007, based on web development technologies: HTML, PHP, MySQL and Javascript. In 2020, the algorithm was adapted to allow development on a single software, R, which considerably improves the calculation time of the biodiversity index. Thus was born the idea of making a comparison between the two versions.