Can you check if it works now? I think there was a minor glitch with my web host.
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@keirmorse For any of the graphs, when you click on one of the items in the legend, it will show/hide that item in the chart.
I updated the graphs. This is the revised danger zone. The lines are color coded by species. When you click on an item in the legend, it will show/hide that annotation value for all the species
To show the Flowers annotations for all four species, I clicked on other four annotations in the legend to hide them.
I also added a menu to show observations counts or percents. Here’s the Flowers annotation for all four species with percent.
The graphs for annotations includes “not annotated”. Should “not annotated” be shown or hidden by default? iNaturalist taxa pages shows “no annotation” by default.
Very nice! After “Flowers and Fruits” in the legend, it might be good to add something like “Click categories to add or remove” as that isn’t currently intuitive. There are lots of other things that could be nice to add or refine but its pretty awesome to now be able to easily compare the phenology of data of multiple species in iNat. This feature might be good to make a separate post about as other people would likely want to easily compare phenology between species and may not see it here.
It’s also nice that subspecies and varieties can be shown. In the below example, we can see three varieties of Malacothamnus jonesii with Malacothamnus discombobulatus. Note that both Malacothamnus jonesii var. jonesii and Malacothamnus discombobulatus grow together and they both have very distinct flowering periods that do not overlap, which prevents hybridization. The other varieties of Malacothamnus jonesii do not occur with other species and have longer flowering periods that do overlap the Malacothamnus discombobulatus flowering time. Whether this is just chance, evolution, or a need for more sampling, I don’t know, but it is interesting.
Regarding whether “not annotated” should be shown by default of not, when it is just one species, it’s nice to see everything. When it is multiple species, one or two categories are much better, so maybe good not to choose just one to turn off. Being able to see what is not annotated is very useful. For example, using just counts, I can see that Ribes roezlii may be underannotated relative to the others.Using percents, maybe it isn’t so bad. And looking at just Ribes roezlii, I can see that what is annotated vs. not looks like a reasonable distribution. Though, in this case, I think there might be a geographic bias that can’t be seen. If you want to complicate it further, it may be useful to compare the same species in two locations.
It does work now! Great. Thanks!
Edit, as I can’t post three comments in a row;
The pagination has one option with three dots (…)
I don’t get any results when I click it.
Screenshots:
I now sometimes run into the effect that the browser address field disappears. This remains if I jump to iNat
The difference could probably make if I start the explorer using a favorite from the homescreen rather then with a favorite inside safari.
Same setting while browsing through media with configuration of 196 per page
I noticed that there is an option to group by place but I can’t select it in this example, which is something I’ve played around with in exports. This would be a great way to compare flower phenology by place. Phenology could change due to climate (north vs. south, elevation, coastal vs not) but it could also indicate evolutionary phenological divergence.
Next on my todo list is to add more geospatial analysis features to the map and graph tabs. I wanted to work on map and graphs together so that map and graph place-based data visualizations would complement each other.
Did you know about the differences and similarities in flowering periods for the various Malacothamnus varieties before looking at the graphs?
I enjoy making data exploration tools to allow people to see patterns in data without knowing how to code or knowing GIS software.
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I didn’t add any code that intentionally alters how iOS treats the browser address field. Whatever changes are happening to browser address field is caused by iOS and Safari.
Thx. I meanwhile got used to it and use this as a feature to get rid off superfluous browser elements.
Yep, I did my PhD on the genus, but I had to do all that comparing the different iNat pages and combining the data from exports, which is a lot more work. This tool really allows for much easier comparisons, exploration of the data, and hypothesis testing, which could really help people find interesting research questions to focus on.