Predicting the Number of Wildfires in the Amazon Rainforest Using Random Forests

Sadrach Pierre, Ph.D.
Towards Data Science
4 min readOct 16, 2019

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Previously, we analyzed the Brazilian Wildfire dataset. We looked at dataset’s characteristics such as the mean number of wildfires in each state, the standard deviation in the number of wildfires in each state and the distribution in number of wildfires across all of the states. We also looked at the number of wildfires vs the year for each state in a…

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Writer for Built In & Towards Data Science. Cornell University Ph. D. in Chemical Physics.