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Interactive Data - HWY 285 Corridor Fires 1980-2014

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Interactive Data - HWY 285 Corridor Fires 1980-2014

UPDATE 4/5/2016: I have updated the dashboard with all the relevant fire data and added new interactive charts to the dashboard. click the link to go to the dashboard and see the improvements!

 

In my previous post I played around with R and CartoDB to map fire data around the highway 285 corridor. Then I discovered the online interactive data visualization suite Tableau. Using the same U.S. Forest Service data as before, I used Tableau to build a dashboard of interactive visualizations. Each element can be clicked and it will filter all the other elements. There is even a timeline slider at the top which will also adjust all the visualizations.

Keep in mind that I built this as a proof-of-concept, just to see if I could do it, and to see if others are interested in it. If this dashboard were to be used by the county or any other professional entity, I would first need to verify that I have all the relevant data built in. Presently, this only uses U.S. Forest Service data.

The dashboard is too large for this blog post, so I put it on it's own page.

Click here to visit the dashboard and explore the fire data!

Here is a screenshot of it just to tease you:

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A beginner's beginning guide to specialty coffee

Specialty coffee is not a type, kind, or variety of coffee plant. To me, specialty coffee is a landscape of connected and interdependent people and processes that is focused on quality not quantity of the coffee experience. From farmers, their families, their seasonal workers, quality control processes, the wet and dry milling stations, storage, exporters, importers, commercial and home roasters, cafe owners, baristas, organizations such as SCAA, ACE, and WCR, trainers and educators, universities, sensory scientists, botanists and agronomists, sustainability initiatives, climate scientists, software coders and app developers, equipment and device manufacturers, private and public investors, supply chain and logistics experts, commodities traders, local and national governments, cultural innovators, and more.

When a drop of specialty coffee hits your tongue, you are tasting your connection to the fortunes and misfortunes of everyone in this landscape.

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A beginner's beginning guide to specialty coffee