Data

Keeps track of sources and issues related to data in FireCARES.

• NFIRS: National Fire Incident Reporting System
• USFA: US Fire Administration

see terms for additional information regarding terminology used in FireCARES

IPython/Jupyter notebook setup

Database connections

firecares/nfirs/parcels should be connections defined in your .pg_service.conf, pointed at the respective databases.

Docker

1. docker-compose up

Python

We'd recommend creating a virtualenv to contain your python libraries specific to this project.

Install the necessary python dependencies via:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Next, run ipython notebook to start a notebook session, from here you'll be able to navigate to the notebook you'd like to open via your browser.