Chapter 5 Interactive Component
5.1 Data Preprocessing for d3 Component
The preprocessing for the interactive component consisted of calculating the number of wildfires per state, per year. We chose the subset of 2013 - 2016 for an interactive component, resulting in four tables, one per year, after preprocessing.
Recall, the NFIRS database includes only a sample of total fire data. As such, rather than interpret the number of wildfires in each state as a raw number, it is more keen to track the number of NFIRS wildfires over time, observing a general trend.