For my final data visualization project, I chose to work with a data set that was about California fire incidents from 2013 to 2019.
I wanted to create a visualization that would allow users to observe how the location and size of different fires changed over the years.
In my visualization, the data is represented as dots that are placed on the map based on the county latitude and longitude. The color of the dot corresponds with the year of the fire and the size relates to the amount of acres that were burned.
To interact with the visualization, try pressing the buttons in the upper right corner to change the year of the dataset or show all of the dots at once. Another way to interact with this code, is by hovering over the dots to see how many acres the fires burned.
One interesting thing I noticed during this project is the earlier year had fewer fires but as time passed fires became more frequent, peaking at 2018 and becoming slightly less frequent 2019.
Some things I still wonder about is how the lives of people who were close to the fire were affected, how many people where injured or died, the cause of the fires, and what this would look like with data from the years following 2019.