I am wrapping up a grant funded project that used iNat as a data platform. I am trying to show the funder’s impact. One metric I’m looking at is there are 122 people who have joined the iNat collection project in less than a year.
I have no context to evaluate this number. I feel like it’s above the number that would normally join a project but I don’t know…
Is there a way to look at open collection projects (meaning the data is not members only ) by the number of members?
Not sure if this will help you.
Open explore, and under Filters - More Filters. Instead of searching by project, use the Place of that project and add it into the Place filter. This will give you all observations irrespective of the project. You can then refine it for date periods etc.
you could do a random sampling of projects, but i think for your purposes, you would want to define a set of peer projects. once you’ve defined the peer set, you can get the number of members for each.
i think the reason comparing against all or comparing against a random sample of projects is not great is that people make collection projects for all sorts of reasons. so the number of members in a project created for a totally unrelated situation is not really that useful to compare against.