For several years now, I’ve heard acquaintances lament: We don’t have spring anymore. We skip spring and go straight to summer. I miss spring-like temperatures. To see if data supports this belief, I decided to analyze publicly available NOAA weather station data collected from 1910 - 2019 at the Knoxville, TN airport.
- Jupyter Notebook
- R, ggplot2
- Used R functions to improve readibility
- Used heatmaps and boxplots for data exploration
- Used textGrob to customize plot titles
- Used R if-stop statements to validate data along the way
- Used readr::read_csv to get data from CSV file
- There is evidence to support the perception that summer-like temperatures from April 1 to May 31 have happened more frequently since 2005 in Knoxville, TN.
- Introduction in notebook contains reason for analysis, the terms used to define the bounds of the problem, and data source details.
- The data (CSV file) is included in the repo.
- All required packages are in one cell at the top of the notebook.