Prasher, S., Evans, JC., Thompson, MJ., & Morand-Ferron, J. Characterizing innovators: ecological and individual predictors of problem-solving performance. PLoS ONE. File list (files found within Prasher-et-al-2019-plosone.zip) LeverPullingPerformance.csv PaperRippingPerformance.csv Persistence&Repeatability.csv File descriptions LeverPullingPerformance.csv: Contains data on characteristics of individuals and measures from lever-pulling trials sorted to recreate the reported extended cox regression analysis. Column: Description LeverPullingPerformance$indiv: individual band number identification LeverPullingPerformance$latency: latency to solve or become censored in the lever-pulling trials LeverPullingPerformance$status: censoring status of latency to solve the lever-pulling task used for cox regression (0 = censored, 1 = uncensored) LeverPullingPerformance$tstart: start time (in seconds) of each time interval used for the extended cox regression LeverPullingPerformance$tstop: stop time (in seconds) of each time interval used for the extended cox regression LeverPullingPerformance$contacts: number of contacts made with the task in each time interval LeverPullingPerformance$domscore: dominance score based on interactions between birds at RFID feeders. LeverPullingPerformance$urbanscore: urbanization score generated by PCA analysis used to infer degree of urbanization at each site. LeverPullingPerformance$explscore: exploration score generated by PCA analysis. LeverPullingPerformance$solve: indicator of whether the task was solved in each time interval (0 = unsolved, 1 = solved) LeverPullingPerformance$site: code of each field site. LeverPullingPerformance$habitat: rural (urban score < 0) or urban (urban score > 0) habitat type. LeverPullingPerformance$age: age class Ð adult or juvenile. LeverPullingPerformance$sex: female or male. PaperRippingPerformance.csv: Contains data on characteristics of individuals and measures from paper-ripping trials sorted to recreate the reported extended cox regression analysis. Column: Description PaperRippingPerformance$indiv: individual band number identification. PaperRippingPerformance$latency: latency to solve or become censored in the paper-ripping trials. PaperRippingPerformance$status: censoring status of latency to solve the paper-ripping task used for cox regression (0 = censored, 1 = uncensored). PaperRippingPerformance$tstart: start time (in seconds) of each time interval used for the extended cox regression. PaperRippingPerformance$tstop: stop time (in seconds) of each time interval used for the extended cox regression. PaperRippingPerformance$contacts: number of contacts made with the task in each time interval. PaperRippingPerformance$domscore: dominance score based on interactions between birds at RFID feeders. PaperRippingPerformance$urbanscore: urbanization score generated by PCA analysis used to infer degree of urbanization at each site. PaperRippingPerformance$explscore: exploration score generated by PCA analysis. PaperRippingPerformance$solve: indicator of whether the task was solved in each time interval (0 = unsolved, 1 = solved). PaperRippingPerformance$site: code of each field site. PaperRippingPerformance$habitat: rural (urban score < 0) or urban (urban score > 0) habitat type. Persistence&Repeatability.csv: Contains data on the characteristics of individuals and measures from problem-solving trials used for the analysis of predictors of persistence and repeatability of problem-solving performance. Column: Description Persistence&Repeatability$capturedate: date (yyyymmdd) that each bird was captured Persistence&Repeatability$site: code of each field site. Persistence&Repeatability$indiv: individual band number identification Persistence&Repeatability$age: age class Ð adult or juvenile. Persistence&Repeatability$sex: female or male. Persistence&Repeatability$habitat: rural (urban score < 0) or urban (urban score > 0) habitat type. Persistence&Repeatability$urbanscore: urbanization score generated by PCA analysis used to infer degree of urbanization at each site. Persistence&Repeatability$explscore: exploration score generated by PCA analysis. Persistence&Repeatability$domscore: dominance score based on interactions between birds at RFID feeders. Persistence&Repeatability$lpsolve: whether the lever-pulling task was solved (Y) or not (N). Persistence&Repeatability$lplatency: latency to solve or become censored in the lever-pulling trials. Persistence&Repeatability$lpstatus: censoring status of latency to solve the lever-pulling task used for cox regression (0 = censored, 1 = uncensored). Persistence&Repeatability$lpcontacts: total number of contacts made with the lever-pulling task until the bird solved the task or the observation became censored. Persistence&Repeatability$prsolve: whether the paper-ripping task was solved (Y) or not (N). Persistence&Repeatability$prlatency: latency to solve or become censored in the paper-ripping trials. Persistence&Repeatability$prstatus: censoring status of latency to solve the paper-ripping task used for cox regression (0 = censored, 1 = uncensored). Persistence&Repeatability$prcontacts: total number of contacts made with the paper-ripping task until the bird solved the task or the observation became censored