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Loading and Parsing: Forest Fires in Brazil (CS 573 Assignment #2.3)

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AAlex Pietrick
Last edited Sep 30, 2021
Created on Sep 9, 2021

This visualization loads the Brazilian Forest Fires dataset from a GitHub-hosted CSV file and displays a summary of its size and structure in large red text. It uses D3 v5’s `d3.csv` method to parse the data, then calculates and presents the file size in kilobytes, the total row count, and the number of columns. The example demonstrates both the primary async/await approach with `d3.csv` and includes commented-out alternatives using `fetch` and `d3.csvParse`.

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Brazilian Forest Fires Dataset

This visualization is a summary of the Brazilian Forest Fires Dataset. This dataset includes information on the number of forest fires in Brazil from 1998 to 2016 such as location, time, and Brazilian state.

Orginally Source of Dataset (Kaggle)


List of Attributes

  • Year: Ordinal
  • State: Categorical
  • Month: Ordinal
  • Number: Quantitative
  • Date: Ordinal

Questions/Tasks

  • Which Brazilian states have the highest rate of forest fires?
  • How has the rate of forest fires changed over time?

(With extra data)

  • How have the increase of forest fires affected Brazil as a whole?
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