I was curious about what areas were over/under-represented in iNaturalist observations, so pulled together some quick data and made the following table for US/Canada.
A few things are interesting:
State/Province | Observations per 100 people | Population | Observations |
---|---|---|---|
Vermont | 37.74 | 624594 | 235694 |
Yukon | 21.21 | 35874 | 7610 |
Northwest Territories | 10.07 | 41786 | 4207 |
Alaska | 8.87 | 741894 | 65823 |
Nova Scotia | 7.02 | 923598 | 64840 |
California | 5.94 | 39250017 | 2331226 |
New Brunswick | 5.28 | 747101 | 39445 |
Maine | 5.25 | 1331479 | 69897 |
Texas | 5.2 | 27862596 | 1449452 |
District of Columbia | 5.09 | 681170 | 34660 |
Hawaii | 4.82 | 1428557 | 68875 |
Prince Edward Island | 4.28 | 142907 | 6113 |
Wyoming | 4.05 | 585501 | 23721 |
Guam | 3.91 | 164229 | 6417 |
New Mexico | 3.78 | 2081015 | 78667 |
Ontario | 3.72 | 13448494 | 500036 |
Oregon | 3.57 | 4093465 | 146163 |
Arizona | 3.53 | 6931071 | 244353 |
New Hampshire | 3.11 | 1334795 | 41567 |
Maryland | 3 | 6016447 | 180367 |
North Carolina | 2.81 | 10146788 | 285446 |
Washington | 2.81 | 7288000 | 204504 |
Ohio | 2.76 | 11614373 | 319993 |
Montana | 2.72 | 1042520 | 28317 |
Alabama | 2.69 | 4863300 | 130938 |
Massachusetts | 2.66 | 6811779 | 181528 |
Virginia | 2.66 | 8411808 | 223623 |
British Columbia | 2.6 | 4648055 | 120750 |
Colorado | 2.44 | 5540545 | 134995 |
Idaho | 2.36 | 1683140 | 39687 |
Minnesota | 2.3 | 5519952 | 127092 |
Utah | 2.25 | 3051217 | 68503 |
Delaware | 2.05 | 952065 | 19507 |
Nunavut | 2.02 | 35944 | 727 |
New York | 1.95 | 19745289 | 384707 |
Louisiana | 1.92 | 4681666 | 89816 |
Wisconsin | 1.86 | 5778708 | 107505 |
Nevada | 1.8 | 2940058 | 52874 |
West Virginia | 1.78 | 1831102 | 32554 |
New Jersey | 1.72 | 8944469 | 153888 |
Tennessee | 1.72 | 6651194 | 114216 |
Oklahoma | 1.65 | 3923561 | 64826 |
Connecticut | 1.64 | 3576452 | 58714 |
Illinois | 1.63 | 12801539 | 208886 |
Florida | 1.63 | 20612439 | 335157 |
Pennsylvania | 1.58 | 12784227 | 201925 |
Arkansas | 1.5 | 2988248 | 44728 |
Manitoba | 1.44 | 1278365 | 18445 |
Saskatchewan | 1.41 | 1098352 | 15459 |
Michigan | 1.38 | 9928300 | 137418 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 1.38 | 519716 | 7189 |
South Dakota | 1.37 | 865454 | 11846 |
South Carolina | 1.33 | 4961119 | 66013 |
Rhode Island | 1.15 | 1056426 | 12164 |
Mississippi | 1.15 | 2988726 | 34257 |
Missouri | 1.1 | 6093000 | 67145 |
Kansas | 1.04 | 2907289 | 30238 |
Kentucky | 1 | 4436974 | 44207 |
Indiana | 0.98 | 6633053 | 64779 |
North Dakota | 0.93 | 757952 | 7018 |
Alberta | 0.9 | 4067175 | 36733 |
Nebraska | 0.79 | 1907116 | 15083 |
Georgia | 0.71 | 10310371 | 73359 |
Iowa | 0.65 | 3134693 | 20520 |
Quebec | 0.5 | 8164361 | 40555 |
Puerto Rico | 0.42 | 3411307 | 14157 |
And on a map (dunno why Nunavut and Prince Edward Island are all screwed up)
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Very interesting! Are you going to do a worldwide one next ;-)
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