For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with fire data across California.
I wanted to create a visualization that would allow users to see how many fires are in each county.
In my visualization, the data is represented as different colored dots throughout California. These dots represent counties and are located in the exact spots they are in real life. The darker the color, the more fires were in that county. For example, if the dot is yellow there are around 5 or fewer fires in that county.
To interact with the visualization, try hovering over each dot to see the exact number of fires in that county!
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is how flexible you will need to be. Your project is not going to be what you think so you most likely will have to change it at least once. I found it interesting how the number of fires in each county varied drastically. For example, one county would have around 50 fires while the neighboring one had 5.
Something I still wonder about is how this data will change over the years. This data was only from 2013 to 2019 and I am interested in seeing how it progresses. Will the counties that have more fires increase at the same rate? How will this affect the environment and earth?