Why I chose to make this Interactive:
While making this graph I noted some major issues caused by the
static format. First, it is hard to see the Disasters that only went on
for a couple days because their effects are masked by the longer
droughts and other outliers like the “Western/Eastern Severe Weather and
Flooding” which lasted 90 days and is classified as a severe storm. the
other problem stemming from similar issues is that the graph is pretty
cluttered and its hard to look for patterns in the date looking at all 7
Disaster types. The interactive version of this graph solves these
issues by allowing you to remove specific disaster types, opening up
more dicotimous comparisons and by allowing you to zoom in, letting you
see some of the severe storm data that gets compressed by the weather
events with signifigantly higher durations.