Hi everyone, I wanted to post here about an iNaturalist project I participated in for an undergraduate Big Data/Geography course at San Diego State University in Fall 2020. Our team analyzed iNaturalist users themselves, and how they use the platform. Our insights come in four general categories: U…

some more typos in the taxonomy section: “iNaturalist has produced many more research-grade observations on animals and plants (Kingdoms Animalia and Plantae ) than on fungi.” " Class Aves (birds) and Class Insecta have many more observations in Kingdom Animalia that the runner ups: reptiles, mamm…

“This excludes lichens and moss, which perhaps are considered “boring” to observe and identify among iNaturalist’s user-base.” I would not say that these are “boring” to identify, but along with fungi, might need chemical, microscopic, or other analysis, rather than just visual inspection, in order…

I’m shocked one only has to observe 1250+ times per year to be in the top 1% of observers!

I’d love to see “II. Do different geographic regions have different popular taxonomic categories?” done with plants

As far as I can tell, the report covers only active users, correct? By ‘active’, I mean users who have posted at least one observation. By inspection of the iNat user community, it seems evident that the median number of observations among all iNat accounts is zero. Curious whether your dataset allo…

[image] ellen5: This apparent large burden of completely inactive users this is not necessarily true; many of these zero observation users are very active identifiers, including users with hundreds of thousands of IDs

statistically, only a few percent of zero-observation users have any IDs at all. loarie did a blog post and mentioned that somewhere…

To clarify, the median user has zero activity of any type. I reached this by randomly searching user names and perusing results. (Try it yourself, and see what you find) I posted my remark to see whether there is data to support the assertion which I arrived at entirely casually. Though I suppose …

Do you mean statistically or just from experience?

I kind of wish that in the sections on activity and super-users, you’d looked at identification activity and top identifiers as well as observation activity and top observers. After all, there are many databases you can submit observations to, but iNaturalist is one of the few where identification h…

iNaturalist Research Project Fall 2020

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iNaturalist Research Project Fall 2020

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