Early-stage project

iNat DashBoard

A visual dashboard project for turning iNaturalist records into clear, organized and comparative biodiversity analysis.

📊

What the project does

iNat DashBoard is being developed to transform iNaturalist records into visual, organized and easy-to-understand analysis. The goal is to help naturalists, researchers, wildlife observers, NGOs, schools, environmental projects and institutions interpret public biodiversity data more clearly.

CSV

CSV and API sources

The project is designed to work with iNaturalist CSV exports and direct searches through the public iNaturalist API.

Compare up to four animals

Select up to four species and compare their records side by side, including activity, months, years and observer contribution.

Activity and seasonality

Analyze records by time, month, weekday, day and night activity, accumulated records and year-by-month patterns.

👥

Observers and data quality

Review observer rankings, observer concentration, data completeness, iNaturalist quality grades and sampling effort by year.

Important interpretation

The Dashboard is not designed to measure the real abundance of animals in nature. It shows patterns found in available records, so charts should be interpreted as record analysis and observation effort, not as population counts.

i

Current status: embryonic stage

The project is still in an early, embryonic phase, but it already shows the direction of what is being developed: a visual way to cross-reference iNaturalist records, compare species and generate useful summaries for reports, presentations, environmental education and institutional communication.

Planned outputs

The project is planned to support filtered CSV, technical JSON, interpretive TXT summaries, PNG charts and a complete A4-style HTML report.

Send feedback