After I finished evaluating the Storm Events Database from NOAA, I was convinced we needed to look for machine recorded events. When you start poking around the NOAA site looking for radar data, you’ll find a lot of information about how they record this data in binary block format. Within this data, you’ll find measurements…
Read More NOAA Radar and Severe Weather Data InventoryThis entry picks up the story behind my first data science project predicting hail damage to farms. In this article we identify data quality issues in our first data source. Property and Crop Damage In the NOAA documentation these two columns were recorded to say how much property and crop damage occurred in a given…
Read More Data Quaity IssuesEarly on in my new role I was asked to find out how risky it was to offer hail insurance for a given property. If you haven’t worked with insurance before here’s the basics. You’re placing a bet that says I’m betting something bad is going to happen. The insurer is betting that it won’t…
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