Stats you'd enjoy seeing in inat year in review?

I really like the year in review feature! it’s super fun to look through how much I’ve seen and logged this year. there’s a few things I wish were included, though. (this is more of a conversation topic than a concrete request, so I chose not to put it in feature requests.)

  • I would love to see a clear number showing how many new-to-me species I’d logged over the past year.
  • it might be fun to see what species I observed most this year, or the least-observed species (overall across the site) I logged.
  • in general, I wish it were easier to compare stats across multiple years, too.

any other thoughts? any issues with these ideas?

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I wish the same charts that are available on collection projects were available for any search you made. Or at least for a search for your own observations. I also wish the year in review was generatable from a tab or menu and did not require memorizing or storing the location of that url by bookmarking it.

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I wish the YIR could be generated for any time period, not just calendar years.

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I’d like to see this

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Agreed on all points. I’d love to have stats for those things too.

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I sense that these ideas while great would put a lot of pressure on the servers (particularly the new to you this year feature). If you want to know now, you can do a data download of your observations and analyze the results yourself. For some features you may need to do a bit of Excel or LibreOffice code.

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Instead of number of ‘species’ I’d like to see an option to calculate number of minimum rank taxa. I’ve seen 12 described varieties of Eriogonum umbellatum–iNat counts this as 1.

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Not quite what you’re asking, but I just realised the calendar function shows a count of the number of life list firsts on each day (no option for month or year though as far as I can see).
Don’t think I’d noticed this feature before.

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