Storm Data Analysis: Health and Economic Impact

Synopsis

This report analyzes the NOAA Storm Database to determine which weather events are most harmful to population health and have the greatest economic consequences across the United States.

Data Processing

file_url <- "https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/repdata%2Fdata%2FStormData.csv.bz2"
download.file(file_url, destfile = "stormdata.csv.bz2")
storm <- read.csv("stormdata.csv.bz2")