October 28

Activity 1

• Review the code from last class and run all the cells

• Ask any questions that may arise

Activity 2 -Pandas date time

• Navigate to the class moodle page and download the 2 code files under oct 28 (pandas date time)

Activity 3 - Obtaining and Visualizing hurricane data

• Navigate to moodle and look for the oct 28 code and data folder for activity 3
• Download the two files atlantic.csv and eastern_pacific.csv

• These files contain the names and additional info for tropical storms that formed in the two basins

  ## Task: Write code to

  • Read the two files into a pandas data frame
  • Loop over each storm and display its name, date of formation, and intensity (SS scale)
  • Count the total number of storms that formed in the two basins over the entire period
  • Plot a time series of yearly counts for each basin (overlay)
  • PLot a time seriss that shows the number of storms by month in each basin
  • Are the yearly counts in the two basins correlated? Dreaw a scattewr plot and calcuate the correlation coefficient