For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with data of the fires that occurred over the years, from 2013 to 2019. The data set included the latitude and longitude, acres of the fires, names, etc.
I wanted to create a visualization that would allow users to have an insight into how the occurrence of fires are evolving over time, and see patterns on when and where fires are a problem.
In my visualization, the data is represented as
To interact with the visualization:
🔥 Try hovering over the different fire icons to see their names and acres.
🕒 The slider on the top can be moved left to right to represent the years.
✅ The two checkboxes at the bottom do two things: the top one can overlay the fires by the year with the slider, and the bottom button shows all the fires somewhat more proportionally than if not clicked; just click the boxes to make them work.
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is how much variation there is in the size of the fires. Some of the fires are really tiny compared to the others, while others are so huge they could barely fit on the screen.
Something I still wonder about is how I could have made the map so that it was color tinted by the heat, and see if there was a correlation between the number of fires (and the density of the fires too) and the heat in the area.