Interactive NOAA storm data explorer

Interactive NOAA storm data explorer

Kelvin Han

The application

The Interactive NOAA data explorer is available at https://kelvin.shinyapps.io/DevDataProd

This application enables the user to select inputs and presents the output on an interactive map or on a table.

The data

The data is from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) storm database.

The dataset is available at https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/repdata%2Fdata%2FStormData.csv.bz2

A peek at the Post-Processed Data

head(dataFile)

##    YEAR STATE EventName FATALITIES INJURIES propDmgValue cropDmgValue
## 1: 1950    AL   Tornado          0       15        27500            0
## 2: 1950    AR   Tornado          2       49       860030            0
## 3: 1950    CO   Tornado          0        1        50000            0
## 4: 1950    CT   Tornado          0        3       252500            0
## 5: 1950    FL   Tornado          0        0        82500            0
## 6: 1950    GA   Tornado          0        1        32500            0

Leaflet

This application uses Leaflet, an open-source JavaScript library, for the interactive map. More information is available at the link below.

https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/