Data Is Plural
A new podcast from the long-running newsletter, Data Is Plural (data-is-plural.com). Each episode distills an expert interview into a crisp 15 minutes, taking you behind the scenes of another surprising dataset. One season = five episodes.
Data Is Plural
S2E4: Canadian Wildfires
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Season 2
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Episode 4
This episode’s guest is Bruce Macnab, head of Canada's Wildland Fire Information System, featured in the June 14, 2023 edition of the Data Is Plural newsletter. Bruce describes how his team gathers that information, the obstacles they face, how they deal with uncertainty and varying source quality, and how their approach has changed in the decade since the project launched.
Relevant and mentioned links:
- Canadian Wildland Fire Information System
- Historical data from the Canadian National Fire Database
- WildFireSat: Enhancing Canada's ability to manage wildfires
Theme music by Nikhil Sonnad.