Data Case Study 3#

Take a look at the landing page for the dataset:
Top 20 Largest California Wildfires: 20 wildfires from 1932 to 2018 that burned the most acres in California
https://www.kaggle.com/annieichen/top-20-largest-california-wildfires

kaggle wildfire

With the information shown above, and using the link provided, answer the following questions:

Background#

Questions

  1. Why was the data collected?

  2. What are the limitations of the data?

Publisher / Host#

Questions

  1. How do you access the dataset?

  2. Is there a theme or subject focus to the repository?

  3. Where else would you expect to find this data?

  4. What other types of data would you expect to find there?

Citation#

Questions

  1. How would you cite the data?

  2. Is there an example or recommendation?

Result

Cal Fire (2020), Top 20 largest California wildfires, Kaggle, Dataset, https://www.kaggle.com/annieichen/top-20-largest-california-wildfires

Licensing#

Questions

  1. Are you allowed to disseminate this dataset?

  2. How do you know?