Citizen Science Network Dynamics - User Behavior on the iNaturalist Platform

Analyzing iNaturalist data reveals how citizen scientists interact, identify species together, and how the community evolves over time.

Modeling ProcessOpen Data

Status: Finished
Project Period: October 2020 – May 2021
Outputs: Code Repository Video Web App/Dashboard External Article Code Repository
Local Chapter: Paris

The CorrelAid team analyzed open data of the Citizen Science Platform iNaturalist, where users can upload observations of plants and animals, and other users can help identify them. The team found out a lot of interesting things on how the user base changed over time, what types of users there are, how they interact with each other and the platform and much more.