9/28/2020

FATALITIES AND INJURIES IN THE US ECONOMY FROM 1950 TO 2011

Speaker: Isabel Méndez Date: September 28th, 2020 —-

Introduction

Most harmful weather events regarding to population health

DATA PROCESSING: The data is a comma-separated-value file compressed via bzip2 algorithm to reduce its size. Hence, the first step is to read the data into a data frame and display a summary of the information.

ANALYSIS: The following plot shows top dangerous weather event types. This graph reflects that the tornado was the main cause of death during those 61 years; there were more than 5,000 deaths and more than 10,000 injuries during that period in US.

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RESULTS

The following plot shows top dangerous weather event types. This graph reflects that the tornado was the main cause of death during those 61 years; there were more than 5,000 deaths and more than 10,000 injuries during that period in US.

RESULTS (CONT)

Other example

This information was obtained from the Exploratory Analysis Course: Project 2. Comparison of emissions from motor vehicle sources in Baltimore and Los Angeles.