EM-VIEW Community Disaster Dashboard

We are excited to announce the release of the EM-VIEW Disaster Dashboard, a powerful new tool designed to increase and speed up data visualization capacity for the EM-DAT User Community. This dashboard is now ready to be used with the EM-DAT Public Database, allowing seamless access to comprehensive global disaster data. The EM-VIEW Dashboard brings disaster data to life, enabling users to explore, analyze, and visualize data without the need for additional tools or programming expertise.

Key Features

The EM-VIEW Dashboard is designed to streamline the data analysis process, making it easier than ever to derive meaningful information from disaster data. Whether you are conducting academic research, preparing policy reports, or developing disaster response strategies, this tool empowers you with:

• Efficiency: Spend less time preparing data and more time analyzing it.
• Flexibility: Customize your views and filters to match your specific research needs.
• Accessibility: The dashboard is user-friendly and requires no advanced technical skills.

The dashboard is powered by the trending Streamlit library, the EM-VIEW Dashboard offers various filtering options - by year, disaster type, or regions – and a suite of interactive visualizations:

• Metric view: Quickly access and compare key disaster impact metrics, such as total fatalities, economic losses, and affected populations, and their distribution between disaster types.
• Table view: Quickly access and search for disaster data entries in a table, select the columns you need and export the data subset as csv.
• Map view: Explore disaster occurrences and their impacts on an interactive world map, with color customization and options to zoom in on specific regions.
• Time view: Analyze trends over years with customizable time series charts, allowing for in-depth temporal analysis of disaster occurrences and impacts, with options to stack the data by regions or disaster types.

Get Started

The dashboard is pre-configured to work directly with the EM-DAT Public Data, available for non-commercial use. To begin using the EM-VIEW Dashboard, simply download the dataset as an Excel file from the EM-DAT Data Portal and upload or drag-and-drop it into the dashboard. That’s it, no more tedious chart creation—just instant insights and effortless visualization!

Not familiar with the database? Feel free to access the EM-DAT Documentation to better understand and interpret the data. We encourage you to explore the EM-VIEW Dashboard and all available resources and discover how it can enhance your disaster research and response efforts.

Customize and Share your Dashboard

Are you a Python developer? You can access the EM-VIEW GitHub Project and fork it to customize the dashboard to fit your own needs, using the fast and efficient Streamlit web app library.

Have you developed another mature visualization solution and would like to share it with the EM-DAT user community? Contact the EM-DAT team to have your tool referenced in EM-DAT’s useful External Resources so that as many people as possible can benefit from it!