Note to self only. I was looking for a statistics problem involving a regression and started rummaging through trying to determine the number of users on iNaturalist by year end as measured by user ID number. This does not produce an accurate result due to suspended accounts and deleted accounts. That said, the results approximate the growth of users on iNaturalist. I manually searched for the user ID nearest to the end of the year and treated that value as the number of users on the platform. The result is nicely exponential relationship as seen at https://www.desmos.com/calculator/g2ugf2c9nm

By my projections, iNaturalist is headed towards 2.7 million users by year end. Now to find something more linear for my introduction to statistics final examination.

Posted on May 4, 2019 07:14 AM by danaleeling