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Summary Reports
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The **Summarise** Menu option provides access to some quick and simple ways to view data
summaries from iRecord.

General Summaries
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Click on the **Summarise > General Summaries** menu item to access a collection of reports
summarising the records you have entered as well as the records entered into iRecord as a
whole.

.. image:: images/summarise-select-report.png
    :width: 700px
    :alt: The general summary reports selection page
    
Hopefully the report titles are fairly self-explanatory. Here are a couple of examples

The **My records density map** page provides you with a vice county level heat map of 
where you have input your records:

.. image:: images/summarise-my-records-density-map.png
    :width: 700px
    :alt: My records density summary map
    
The **Species by group** pie chart shows the relative number of species recorded in each
species group:

.. image:: images/summarise-species-by-group.png
    :width: 700px
    :alt: The Species by group pie chart
    
.. tip::

  Have a play with the different charts available and try clicking on the pie segments, 
  chart bars and map regions to quickly access a filtered version of the **Explore** page
  showing the underlying records and species.
  
Survey Summaries
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Specific surveys which host their records on iRecord sometimes opt to provide a summary
page to show progress. This might apply to a bioblitz or a survey of a specific site, for
example. These summary pages are listed under the **Summarise > Survey summaries** menu
item. Here's a screenshot of the summary page available for the 2012 Garden Bioblitz 
trial:

.. image:: images/summarise-garden-bioblitz.png
    :width: 700px
    :alt: The Garden Bioblitz 2012 trial summary