I’m working with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC) community science team to teach iNaturalist users how to do basic analysis of iNaturalist data using R programming language. NHMLAC has been running City Nature Challenge (CNC) using iNaturalist for 10 years, so we thought this would be a good opportunity to teach iNaturalist users how to make charts and maps with the CNC data.
Rough draft of the tutorial. https://wykhuh.github.io/cnc-nhmlac-workshop/
Maybe off topic but I use iNat in my course about « médiation culturelle numérique » and in « littératie numérique pour la recherche » (both in Qc, CA) :)
I show my digital humanities students how an API could be use, and it help us get outside our usual littérature/history field (haha) and for y tourism/mediation students it’s a good way to implement an electronic aspect, or to have a new tool to sensibilise the public to the wildlife around them.
I get a Site Not Found message when I click on the link.
Updated link. https://wykhuh.github.io/after-inaturalist-r/
And I and some volunteers have classified all of the Ornate Checkered beetles as to whether their markings are red or yellow (and a few “other”) . These can be mapped . There is a hypothesis that the reds are more common in hot dry places – potentially this could be tested.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dFKqfAhouCHk3bfwwVC5WNADzsw2S6GOrnOAouJ4puc/edit?usp=sharing