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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?

Data
Data Case Study 2
Data
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