Cornell’s eBird provides some fairly nifty looking bar graphs on Hotspot locations, but while you can download the data in a raw format, that format is a fairly obscure one. This project converts this data into a much more familar format, CSV.
I have two NPM modules so far, ebird-histogramr and ebird-histogramr-cli, the later being for general usage by anyone and the former for Node.js programmers looking to work with the data in a Javascript API.
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You can read more on the GitHub repo, and can even comment or contribute ideas. It currently requires some technical know-how to use, but I aim to improve that over time as the bugs get worked out.