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This repository contains materials accompanying HW4 for eds240.

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HW #3 Feedback

Hello! Here is some quick feedback (largely on aesthetics) for your HW #3 visualizations (please excuse the brevity of my statements). I did not read any of your written responses, so it’s possible that you address some of what I’ve written there and already have plan to make those changes in HW #4. My feedback does not indicate whether or not you received a Satisfactory or Not Yet score -- Sevan will be reviewing your assignment more holistically and against the rubric specifications.

Plot #1 (gen audience)

• Add annotations! Tell your audience a story -- what’s going on in those years with many wildfires?
• When were particularly wet years?
• Any years where forest management practices were implemented? Do we see a signal in the data as a result?
• Consider removing gridlines (especially vertical lines)

Plot #2

• Did you run a statistical model for this (and calculated confidence interval bands)? If so, that’s great and you’ll want to include more information about that model. If not, this is misleading (please refer back to this lecture for additional resources)

Plot #3

• Does grouping by decade make sense?
• This can be a series of plots that you “build up” (think about how you’d present this on slides!) e.g.
• V1 starts with just axes and no data while you orient you audience
• V2 plots a subset of data so you have time to walk your audience through some trends without overwhelming them (consider which subset you might plot to start --e.g. In plot #1 years 1984-2010 are relatively predictable, so pop those in first in this second version)
• V3 could bring in that first massive spike along with annotations that tell us what exactly happened that year
  Etc etc