Anecdata.org

Anecdata.org

@anecdata.org

A free online platform for citizen and community science, developed at @mdibl.org. https://www.anecdata.org

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We're rolling out a new feature on Anecdata: Badges! Badges are achievements project participants can earn when they reach certain milestones- 25 observations, 10,000 pieces of debris, when they submit observations in all habitat types in your project. www.anecdata.org/pages/badges

Our badge rule system is built on top of our data analysis subsystem, so pretty much any question you can graph is something you can set up as a rule for a badge. In this example configuration, the user gets awarded the badge after making 5 observations.

Badges can be retroactive, too: So you can set up a badge with a set of rules and activate it, and our backend badge sync system will retroactively assign badges to everyone who meets the criteria.

Your daily Anecdata patches are being written from the most remote island in Maine, Monhegan Island!

Today we've pushed out an update that resolves an issue with data analysis. To summarize, querying a multi-row datasheet where "Debris Type" was equal to "Cigarettes" would have matched all *observations* where Debris Type = Cigarettes, instead of matching all datasheet rows that matched.

This meant that if you were doing a Python or R analysis, you would have gotten a dataset that would have included all datasheet rows for all observations that matched that query, instead of only the datasheet rows that matched that query!

We're super excited to announce that on April 2nd we're going to be doing a webinar on how to start a project and start using Anecdata.org for data collection! mdibl-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

mdibl-org.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Citizen Science Project Management on Anecdata.org. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Citizen Science Project Management on Anecdata.org. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Whether you're a project manager looking for a digital home for your project, an existing Anecdata user who'd like to get up to speed with the latest we've got to offer, or if you're simply curious, we'd love to have you there!

We're rolling out Pipelines on Anecdata! Pipelines are YAML-based workflows you can configure to run on new observations in projects. Pipelines let users perform tasks on data such as reverse or forward geocoding, and fetching data from nearby NOAA weather buoys. www.anecdata.org/pages/pipeli...

Pipelines came about out of necessity; We had a number of PHP-based background tasks we used for data enrichment on our own projects, and since we're moving away from PHP we needed a more performant way of doing the same thing. And so here we are now!

We’re presenting a poster on DataLab at the 2026 Maine IDeA Data Science Conference!

We've now got Intellisense-like tooltips and code completion in Python. Still working on it in R.

The funnest part of building new data analysis tools is that you get to use them yourself! Here's a map we built using Python that correlates underlying base geology in Maine against drinking water samples collected as part of the All About Arsenic project. www.anecdata.org/analysis/mai...

Guess who just registered to give a talk and present a poster about the exciting R tools we just developed!

MDI Biological Laboratory@mdibl.org

One week away! The Maine IDeA Data Science Conference in Bar Harbor, ME is almost here. Join us at MDI Bio Lab or online. Connect, learn and hear from Data Science leaders in Maine and beyond. Register now before it’s too late. 🧪 🖥️ 🧬 #datascience #machinelearning

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We're excited to announce Anecdata DataLab, a built-in data analysis tool that builds on our earlier data analysis work! What does this mean? Any casual data analysis you create is now saveable. We've got an advanced mode where you can create custom R analyses based off live data from Anecdata!

We're excited to announce Anecdata DataLab, a built-in data analysis tool that builds on our earlier data analysis work! What does this mean? Any casual data analysis you create is now saveable. We've got an advanced mode where you can create custom R analyses based off live data from Anecdata!

Every saved analysis can be embedded in another website, and when you update that analysis, the embedded analysis will update too. You can define data variables, include external files, and debug your code right on Anecdata.

We've written up some preliminary help docs you can dive in here! www.anecdata.org/pages/datalab

Fun experiment: Doing R analyses directly on Anecdata.

You can do your data aggregation on the backend and just use R as a frontend for rendering a graphic, or you can get the raw values and do the full data analysis directly in R. We've got ggplot2 and are experimenting with other libraries (your favorite dev is not an R developer by specialization)

This week, we launched a new data analysis toolset to make it easier for project managers to quickly analyze their live datasets and embed them in other websites. We've created a little showcase of these different analysis tools in our updated help documentation: www.anecdata.org/pages/data-a...

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