Overall summary of ID levels of my obs?

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It’s fairly obvious that the iNat team are a load of stat-happy geeks like me :grin:. So there’s info I’m looking for that I assume is probably available, and I just haven’t found out how to get it yet.

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For example, if I look at this chart for fungi from my 2025 stats page, it shows that I have 234 fungi, with 64 being type A and 97 type B. What this doesn’t show is that there are 71 obs stuck at Kingdom level.

I’m looking for a way to see an overview of all my obs, to show where my ‘weaknesses’ are in terms of getting IDs to the most precise level possible. I know I can get the stats individually by filtering with high and low ranks, but is there anything available to do this automatically and show a summary?

It would be really nice to be able to toggle the chart above to turn on/off the ‘no further rank’ (like the 'Hide “no annotation” ’ setting for the chart in the Taxa view). I know it would make the cool chart a lot more sparse! But it doesn’t need to be pretty - even a way to gather this info to import into a csv file would work.

My aim for 2026 is to get better at getting my obs to species level, so this info would really help in giving me a baseline and figuring out where to focus my efforts.

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I would use https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNat_observations_taxonomy?user_id=clightowler and copy/paste to a spreadsheet, then filter for non-species/subspecies where you have observations at that exact taxon. For example, you have 4 observations stuck at Arthropoda:

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this is a bug previously noted at https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/year-in-review-sunburst-chart-does-not-incorporate-observations-of-non-leaf-taxa/26389/3.

you wouldn’t want this implemented as a toggle. it just needs to visualize the observations that are stuck at higher-level taxa one way or another.

this will produce a sunburst chart for your observations, appropriately handling those stuck at higher-level taxa, but it gets really busy since you have many taxa: https://observablehq.com/@robin-song/inaturalist-observations-by-taxon?user_id=clightowler. you could add &chart_type=sunburst_zoom to get version of the chart that will show 2 rings at a time.

or you could modify the code to produce other versions of the chart. here’s version of the chart where i’ve added &taxon_id=47170 (for Fungi) to the reqURL variable in the apiResponse code block:

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Thank you! Gotta love access to the raw data! Now I can mess about with spreadsheets.

It’s amazing how looking at the raw data can sometimes give you ‘aha’ moments, when you understand how and why data is organized a certain way.

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Wow. This is so cool.

I didn’t realize that not showing the non-leaf-taxa was a bug - I assumed it was intentional.

My programming abilities haven’t kept up with technology (think Fortran77!) but changing a few variables in a url is definitely something I can do. The Zoomable Sunburst is awesome!

Thank you!!