iNaturalist Growth Stats

Jonah Evans

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Jul 30, 2013, 12:01:02 PM7/30/13

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I am going to be giving a presentation to a bunch of biologists on iNaturalist and would really like to make a graph of the number of observations in iNaturalist per month from it's inception.

Does anyone have this information?

Thanks!

Jonah

Lynn Watson

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Jul 30, 2013, 3:56:29 PM7/30/13

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There is one here, half-way down.

http://inaturalist.tumblr.com/

Scott Loarie

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Jul 30, 2013, 4:02:53 PM7/30/13

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Hi Jonah,

The attached image shows obs by week for the last year and a half (green is 2013 pink is 2012), you can manually use the number of obs written above each bar to create a graph

Will that work?

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Scott Loarie

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Jul 30, 2013, 4:04:00 PM7/30/13

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hmm, not sure that image attached. Here it is

Screen Shot 2013-07-30 at 12.58.57 PM.png

Jonah Evans

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Jul 30, 2013, 8:55:47 PM7/30/13

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Thanks everyone. That will work.

Jonah Evans

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Jul 30, 2013, 9:29:32 PM7/30/13

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Scott, do you have these raw data? It would be great if I didn't have to transcribe them all.

Thanks,

Jonah

Jonah Evans

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Sep 4, 2013, 12:44:25 AM9/4/13

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Here's a quick graph showing the number of observations on iNat per month. Pretty cool to see the exponential growth over the last year.

Charlie Hohn

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Sep 4, 2013, 7:39:36 AM9/4/13

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Yeah, I was just thinking yesterday that I used to be able to easily see every plant observation in California and New England, but lately I haven't been able to even get close. I just had to clean out my notification list to mainly just comments and IDs so I don't miss any of those. It's awesome though!

Kent McFarland

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Sep 4, 2013, 8:57:23 AM9/4/13

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Following your lead, I looked at Vermont growth. We started the Vermont Atlas of Life Project in December 2012.

First I looked at the data by year and then I looked at the data by month starting in Dec - 2012 when we had a soft start of the project. It was fully announced in Jan-2013. Cool to see serious growth!