Fork of ILINet Flu Surveillance Data
This visualization displays national ILI total flu cases across weeks for each year from 2015 to 2019, allowing direct year-over-year comparison of seasonal patterns. The chart uses a line mark with year as a categorical color encoding, which applies an unordered color scale to an ordered temporal field. Built with vega-lite-api, d3, and vega-tooltip, the code aggregates ILITOTAL by year, region, and week, pulling data from a Gist containing CDC FluView Interactive surveillance data. The improper color encoding makes it difficult to discern chronological trends.