Harold Nelson
10/8/2018
Visit https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search and search for weather data from a location that interests you. Download the data.
I’ll walk through this with the NY City Central Park Station.
Import the data into R and examine it.
The Federal Reserve Economic Data site is at https://fred.stlouisfed.org/.
Visit the site and find the series All Employees: Total Nonfarm Payrolls, which is always released on the first Friday of every month.
Click on the “Edit Graph” button and change the units to “Change.”
Then download the data using “Import Dataset” in RStudio. Select the “readr” option. See https://www.statmethods.net/input/dates.html for instructions on specifying the format of the date.