Tag: data science

10 Years of Earth Challenge

With all the hype since the beginning of 2019 around the #10yearchallenge, I gave an optional assignment to my students in the Data Science in Environmental Earth Systems Science (EESS) course (ES7023) at Nanyang Technological University, to conduct a #10YearsOfEarth challenge (learn more about the Asian School of the Environment at NTU). They compiled some…
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Mapping Global Earthquakes and Hurricane tracks with R

I created this code in order to do a visualization of natural hazards globally, to use as a graphic for a new initiative at Stanford on “urban resilience.” You can check out the group here: http://urbanresilience.stanford.edu/ It is quite simple, and demonstrates some of the neat data visualizations possible with R. I’ve only included earthquakes…
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