Hi, this is for the more technical folks as you would need to know how to run php scripts locally in order to enjoy this, but I wanted to share a tool I made to gather information in a useful way about which of my observations are rare.
I started thinking about rarity as a concept on iNaturalist, like wouldn’t it be cool if you could see your rarest observations? But that raises the question: what counts as rare? I thought it would be interesting to consider rarity through the lenses of “least observed” — species with very few observations, and “least recently observed” - species that haven been observed in a long time.
I posted the project on github so you can download and run it yourself and make whatever changes you like.
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Check out this tool that was created by @glauber735, specifically the Rarity Category. It is similar, but not the same as your query.
https://glauberramos.github.io/inat/achievements?user=jayparoline
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That’s awesome! Nicely done, I love looking at user stats! There’s a similar but slightly different tool here as well, I assume be Elias Pschernig https://elias.pschernig.com/wildflower/leastobserved.html
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Ah wow, thanks! This one is really nice.
I know both @glauber735’s and Elias’s tool.
Is there also something that can compare two users like Elias’s but show species that both or only either one has like @glauber735’s “Location Species Compate” but for users?
I thought I saw this somewhere…
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I vibe-coded a similar script to analyse my iNaturalist & iRecord garden moth data. I reported on the number I’d seen ever … then how many records existed on iNaturalist for a 20km radius to gauge local rarity … then a national total.
