A while back, I had contemplated a series a videos to help people learn how to work with data in the system ( https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/wiki-external-code-tools-etc-for-working-with-inat/15906/13 ). A week or two ago, I started working on a more detailed overall outline of what I thought would …

[image] jcook: For example, if you want to describe some use cases I could put together some Jupyter notebooks muir earlier specifically mentioned Python as one of the languages he was trying to learn, and i think showing how to create something like the observation + taxon + observer count …

I think it might be useful for new data users something like “What do these licenses mean?” and/or “being an ethical data user” introducing people to citing data from GBIF, how to make sure they’re not violating usage licenses, and other considerations with data?

i’m not sure which link you’re referencing. Whoops, that was from an entirely different thread. Too many tabs open!

[image] jcook: Too many tabs no such thing exists

you could also put a delay between requests just to reinforce iNat’s recommendation to try to limit request rates to about 1/sec. Sure, this is already the behavior for functions that request multiple pages (like get_all_observations() ), which is where you’re most likely to exceed the suggested r…

[image] pisum: get counts from the system for each time period, one time period at a time. this is what you’re doing manually, and there are ways to use the API – even within Excel – to speed up this process. this is a continuation from the earlier post (in reply to @muir ) but i’m going to ch…

[image] jcook: Would also it be useful to show the more general case of converting a JSON response into CSV? it’s the concept that important, i think. it’s probably not a bad thing to talk about the capabilities of the old API, but honestly, i wouldn’t show people how to build stuff using it.…

[image] alexis18: being an ethical data user credit/cite/attribute and honor licensing as appropriate observations are licensed and have attribution info. media (URLs) are typically delivered with accompanying licensing and attribution notes, too. (note that media license may differ from ob…

[image] krancmm: My data use is primarily to incorporate a bunch of fields from observations would you mind sharing a couple of examples of such fields? and maybe sample output row or two that you might use to feed your MPG effort?

Hi @pisum This looks like an amazing plan. Thanks for this–just wanted to reply and support the effort, as in my view there is so much more science that can be done with iNat data. The only question we’ve come across recently is extracting metadata from the photos, for example zoom information. …

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