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Loading Data - Bigfoot Sighting Locations

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AAlexis Caira
Last edited Sep 4, 2025
Created on Sep 4, 2025
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This visualization demonstrates the asynchronous loading and parsing of a Bigfoot sighting dataset using D3.js within a React application. It initially displays a "LOADING" state before fetching data from a CSV file via the `fetch` API, then parses it with `d3.csvParse`. Numeric attributes are converted to correct types before rendering the raw JSON data into the view, highlighting the critical data preparation step for web-based visualizations. The code uses D3.js selection and join operations to update the display efficiently.

AI-generated description

This data is from the Kaggle set Bigfoot Sightings and can be found here: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/thedevastator/unlocking-mysteries-of-bigfoot-through-sightings?select=bfro_locations.csv and pulls from Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) data set. There was 5000+ rows, but I cut it down for this viz to 2000

Attributes include the following:

  • observed: temporal - ISO Date time
  • Location Details: categorical nominal
  • county - categorical
  • State - categorical
  • Season - categorical
  • Title - categorical nominal
  • Latitude: longitude coordinate
  • Longitude: longitude coordinates
  • number: nominal (report number)
  • classification: categorical
  • geohash: ordinal geospatial data
  • temperature_high: quantitative interval
  • temperature_mid: quantitative interval
  • temperature_low: quantitative interval
  • dew point: quantitative interval
  • humidity: quantitative interval
  • cloud_cover: quantitative interval
  • moon_phase: quantitative ordinal
  • precip_intensity: discrete ordinal
  • precip_probability: continuous quantitative
  • precip_type: categorical
  • pressure: quantitative
  • summary: categorical nominal
  • uv_index: ordinal quantitative
  • visibility: continuous quantitative
  • wind_bearing: continuous quantitative
  • wind_speed: continuous quantitative
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