Hello fellow iNatters! I’m just finishing up a Data Science for Biology course at UMASS Boston, and as the final project had to make an interactive web app with R. I ended up creating an app that, given an iNaturalist username, downloads the users observation data set and generates a number of visu…

I also received the error message after trying multiple people’s usernames. The only time there isn’t an error is when I use @jlayman ’s name.

If you run into error messages, try reopening the app; I believe that this is a shinyapps issue due to the amount of traffic. Shinyapps is by no means a perfect platform. @zorrosidekick got your errors after the first try, but the app worked for your username after I restarted it.

This is really cool! Thanks jlayman. I thought the most interesting thing was the “month” graph. This month so far I’ve been feeling really bogged down, suddenly too busy to do as much observing as I’d like… and now I see that according to my stats I always have a May slump! March and April are rea…

[image] jlayman: an interactive web app with R. I ended up creating an app that, given an iNaturalist username, downloads the users observation data set and generates a number of visualizations, tables, and maps regarding their usage of iNat. there may be more efficient ways to collect user s…

This is great! Thanks Jonathon. One thing though, is it possibly to make it so it shows your most ID’d organisms too?

Using this tool you can see how the stay at home order has changed my observation trends… [Screen Shot 2020-05-19 at 2.50.01 PM]

@pisum This was for a class on programming with R. The package for interfacing with iNaturalist and getting data, rinat, is still being developed, and currently can’t do any of those things outright- hence my brute force approach of downloading all observations and manipulating the data afterwards t…

@abersbird bird The R package for handling iNaturalist data, rinat, currently doesn’t have the ability to access identification data, so I wouldn’t be able to do so without figuring out how to use the API.

[image] jlayman: I wouldn’t be able to do so without figuring out how to use the API i’m not an R user myself, but i would guess it should be fairly straightforward to get data from the iNat API without rinat. if you figure out the basic process for that, i think that would open up a lot of p…

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pisum May 20, 2020, 4:39pm 18

not user stats related, but here’s another example of R code leveraging the iNaturalist API: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-things-are-misidentified-as-large-milkweed-bug/12571/4.

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