Blog Post 2 - Update
This past week I have been trying to locate my data sources, I was easily able to find my hurricane data off of NOAA's website. However it has been difficult to find average sea surface temperature data by year. However I did find data for average temperature by month.
This next week I plan to narrow down what months are considered hurricane season. By doing this I will be able to use the month by month data for temperature, and not have an enormous number of maps to make.
Since I am having trouble finding the yearly average, I think I will have to use the month average data. A question I have is, since I will be doing multiple months of multiple years, how do I narrow it down to specific years without skewing my data? Can I randomly pick years to look at or is there another way to do this? I don't want to have to create hundreds of maps to show every single year.
Katie,
ReplyDeleteIs it possible to take the averages from the months of each year and use those numbers to narrow it down? Also, have you thought about showing the years on the maps in increments such as every 5 years so? Hope that helps!
I agree that it may be easier to find data during the peak hurricane months. You could do it over a span of at least 2 years (so you have something to compare the data to). I would recommend using a 5 year or more period.
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