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Description
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:21-04:00 rehab_established string, null Timezone-aware date and time when rehab was established, expressed in as an ISO-8601 string. 2018-10-10T13:58:21-04:00 event_closed string, null Timezone-aware date and time
Address
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Address Access these items through using the address prefix. For example: address.latitude . name type description example address_id string,null Local unique identifier assigned to this address. address_line1 string Street address for the incident location. 2600 BROOK
Time Filtering
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Changing the Time Window on Your Dashboard Your NFORS dashboard is dynamic with respect to time -- meaning you can filter your department data by any time window you would like. First, lets take a look at the top bar
Working with NFORS data
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At present NFORS has two modules available to customers, the analytics suite and the exposure module. Very different data is collected by these two modules, but there are common lines along which they can be joined. The focus of
Weather
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Weather Access weather items through using the weather prefix. For example: weather.currently.apparentTemperature . Weather items are drawn through the Dark Sky api. Please refer to their documentation (under "Data Point Object") for data field definitions. Note that the
Description Definitions
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NFORS Performance Durations In your NFORS dashboards, you may see several different timestamps displayed for a particular incident or aggregated as a larger metric. Some departments calculate response time, event time, alarm handling or other metrics differently than others
Metrics
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NFORS Metrics On this page you will find the definitions of the common statisitical metrics presented on your respective dashboards. Mean Value The arithemetic mean value or more commonly called an 'average' is the central value of a set
Unit Performance
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Unit Level Performance An analysis is performed on each unit within a department's response profile. The data can be filtered as a function of specific time intervals (i.e., last shift, last day, last week, last month, last
Frequently Asked Questions
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Have a question when using NFORS? You're not alone. Check out our FAQs to see if we have already addressed the issue. Q: Is there a way to create a ward specific visualization that includes the number of
Unit and Geospatial Filtering
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Filtering Your Department Dashboard The default dashboard provides users with metrics based on department level performance. The dynamic nature of the NFORS dashboard allows users to parse the base response into subsets that allow for more granular assessments. For
Apparatus
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Apparatus The apparatus attribute is an array of units assigned to the incident. Each entry will have the following schema. name type description example car_id string Local unique identifier assigned to this apparatus, if present. 181241 distance number
Creating a New Dashboard
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Click on Dashboard in the side navigation. Click on Create new dashboard button. Click the Add button. In the Add Panels dialogue box select from the list the visualizations you wish to add to your dashboard or click on
Fire Department
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Fire Department Access these items through using the fire_department prefix. For example: fire_department.fd_id . name type description example fd_id string The NFIRS FD ID for the Fire Department. This field is automatically calculated. 76000 firecares
Overview
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Overview Here's an overview of the NFORS components to prep you: Dashboard A collection of related data visualizations. As filters are applied to a dashboard, the visualizations are automatically updated, allowing the user to compare how the current
Overview
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Search
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Custom Filter Your Dashboard with Freeform Text The NFORS dashboard is built on top of a fully functional search engine. You can leverage the search bar at the top of your dashboard to create custom text filters on your
Creating a Custom Filter
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Click on the Add a filter + button at the top of your dashboard. Type/select your filter from the list of drop-downs or based on a particular schema. Below, the _ address.first_due_ option was selected. The next
Apparatus duration definitions
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NFORS Apparatus durations The Apparatus index includes a set of fields for each responding unit under apparatus_data.extended_data that provide calculations of durations based on that unit's status update timestamps during its response. The definitions of