Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from the recent wave of disasters due to climate change
What it does
It lets you choose a location/country and it displays the most common disaster and how many happened in the records
How we built it
We used Python, Javascript, HTML, and CSS
Challenges we ran into
Time constraints and merging the front-end and back-end of the project
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of being able to efficiently parse through the Excel file to get the data we need
What we learned
We need to do more planning
What's next for DiscoverDisasters
lists of more disasters
References for the dataset used GADM (2018). Database of Global Administrative Areas, Version 3.6. Gleditsch, K. S. and M. D. Ward (1999). A revised list of independent states since the congress of Vienna. International Interactions 25 (4), 393–413. Guha-Sapir, D., R. Below, and P. Hoyois (2014). EM-DAT: International disaster database. Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
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