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(Visualization)What caused 1 Million U.S. wildfires over the last 30 years?
- mattashii 6y agoNeat, but I'd argue this is more a "Map of significant wildfires, with size and cause" than the "visualization of causes of wildfires" as suggested by the title.
- RDMhey 6y agoIf you mouse over the fire events, you will see a cause of the representative data point for that cluster whether it is "lightning", "arson", etc. as well as other details about that specific fire.
- ravenstine 6y agoHumans, primarily. https://www.nps.gov/articles/wildfire-causes-and-evaluation.htm https://www.nps.gov/articles/wildfire-causes-and-evaluation.... https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-01-05/human-caused-ignitions-spark-california-worst-wildfires https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-01-05/human-c...
- flokie 6y ago↑ this.
- RedShift1 6y agoI was expecting a histogram with count over causes here.
- tracyhenry 6y agoauthor of the vis here. Yes I'm working on a new infographic on this dataset that shows aggregated fires grouped by causes.
- bregma 6y agoHeadline writer misinterpreted "origin of wildfires" to mean "cause of wildfires". It's a map of the geographic origin of wildfires and hovering lists their cause when known. It's OK as an infographic, but it's a map showing the "where" not a visualization showing the "why".
- RDMhey 6y agoIf you mouse over the fire data points, it tells you the cause whether it is "lightning", "arson", etc. so you can see which are naturally occurring and which are human made
- tracyhenry 6y agoAuthor of the vis here. Thanks for posting this! I'm working on a better demo that shows causes of the fires more clearly, as well as changes over time. Stay tuned!