- Use the
merge()function to join two datasets. - Deal with missings and impute data.
- Identify relevant observations using
quantile(). - Practice your GitHub skills.
For this lab we will be, again, dealing with the meteorological dataset
downloaded from the NOAA, the met. In this case, we will use
data.table to answer some questions regarding the met dataset, while
at the same time practice your Git+GitHub skills for this project.
This markdown document should be rendered using github_document
document.
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Go to your documents (or wherever you are planning to store the data) in your computer, and create a folder for this project, for example, “PM566-labs”
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In that folder, save this template as “README.Rmd”. This will be the markdown file where all the magic will happen.
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Go to your GitHub account and create a new repository, hopefully of the same name that this folder has, i.e., “PM566-labs”.
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Initialize the Git project, add the “README.Rmd” file, and make your first commit.
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Add the repo you just created on GitHub.com to the list of remotes, and push your commit to origin while setting the upstream.
Most of the steps can be done using command line:
# Step 1
cd ~/Documents
mkdir PM566-labs
cd PM566-labs
# Step 2
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/USCbiostats/PM566/master/content/assignment/05-lab.Rmd
mv 05-lab.Rmd README.md
# Step 3
# Happens on github
# Step 4
git init
git add README.Rmd
git commit -m "First commit"
# Step 5
git remote add origin [email protected]:[username]/PM566-labs
git push -u origin masterYou can also complete the steps in R (replace with your paths/username when needed)
# Step 1
setwd("~/Documents")
dir.create("PM566-labs")
setwd("PM566-labs")
# Step 2
download.file(
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/USCbiostats/PM566/master/content/assignment/05-lab.Rmd",
destfile = "README.Rmd"
)
# Step 3: Happens on Github
# Step 4
system("git init && git add README.Rmd")
system('git commit -m "First commit"')
# Step 5
system("git remote add origin [email protected]:[username]/PM566-labs")
system("git push -u origin master")Once you are done setting up the project, you can now start working with the MET data.
- Load the
data.table(and thedtplyranddplyrpackages if you plan to work with those).
library(data.table)
library(dplyr)##
## Attaching package: 'dplyr'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:data.table':
##
## between, first, last
## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
##
## filter, lag
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
##
## intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
download.file("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/USCbiostats/data-science-data/master/02_met/met_all.gz", "met_all.gz", method="libcurl", timeout = 60)
met <- data.table::fread("met_all.gz")- Load the met data from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/USCbiostats/data-science-data/master/02_met/met_all.gz, and also the station data. For the later, you can use the code we used during lecture to pre-process the stations data:
# Download the data
stations <- fread("ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/isd-history.csv")
stations[, USAF := as.integer(USAF)]## Warning in eval(jsub, SDenv, parent.frame()): NAs introduced by coercion
# Dealing with NAs and 999999
stations[, USAF := fifelse(USAF == 999999, NA_integer_, USAF)]
stations[, CTRY := fifelse(CTRY == "", NA_character_, CTRY)]
stations[, STATE := fifelse(STATE == "", NA_character_, STATE)]
# Selecting the three relevant columns, and keeping unique records
stations <- unique(stations[, list(USAF, CTRY, STATE)])
# Dropping NAs
stations <- stations[!is.na(USAF)]
# Removing duplicates
stations[, n := 1:.N, by = .(USAF)]
stations <- stations[n == 1,][, n := NULL]- Merge the data as we did during the lecture.
met <- merge(
x=met, y=stations,
by.x="USAFID", by.y="USAF",
all.x=TRUE, all.y=FALSE
)
# Print out a sample of data
met[1:5, .(USAFID, WBAN, STATE)]## USAFID WBAN STATE
## 1: 690150 93121 CA
## 2: 690150 93121 CA
## 3: 690150 93121 CA
## 4: 690150 93121 CA
## 5: 690150 93121 CA
What is the median station in terms of temperature, wind speed, and
atmospheric pressure? Look for the three weather stations that best
represent continental US using the quantile() function. Do these three
coincide?
# obtaining averages per station
met_stations <- met[, .(
wind.sp = mean(wind.sp, na.rm = TRUE),
atm.press = mean(atm.press, na.rm = TRUE),
temp = mean(temp, na.rm = TRUE)
), by = .(USAFID, STATE)]
# Computing the median
met_stations[, temp50 := quantile(temp, probs = .5, na.rm = TRUE)]
met_stations[, atmp50 := quantile(atm.press, probs = .5, na.rm = TRUE)]
met_stations[, windsp50 := quantile(wind.sp, probs = .5, na.rm = TRUE)]
# Filtering the data
met_stations[which.min(abs(temp - temp50))]## USAFID STATE wind.sp atm.press temp temp50 atmp50 windsp50
## 1: 720458 KY 1.209682 NaN 23.68173 23.68406 1014.691 2.461838
met_stations[which.min(abs(atm.press - atmp50))]## USAFID STATE wind.sp atm.press temp temp50 atmp50 windsp50
## 1: 722238 AL 1.472656 1014.691 26.13978 23.68406 1014.691 2.461838
met_stations[which.min(abs(wind.sp - windsp50))]## USAFID STATE wind.sp atm.press temp temp50 atmp50 windsp50
## 1: 720929 WI 2.461838 NaN 17.43278 23.68406 1014.691 2.461838
No, the three do not concide.
Knit the document, commit your changes, and Save it on GitHub. Don’t
forget to add README.md to the tree, the first time you render it.
Just like the previous question, you are asked to identify what is the most representative, the median, station per state. This time, instead of looking at one variable at a time, look at the euclidean distance. If multiple stations show in the median, select the one located at the lowest latitude.
# Computing the median
met_stations[, temp50s := quantile(temp, probs = .5, na.rm = TRUE), by = STATE]
met_stations[, atmp50s := quantile(atm.press, probs = .5, na.rm = TRUE), by = STATE]
met_stations[, windsp50s := quantile(wind.sp, probs = .5, na.rm = TRUE), by = STATE]
# Temperature
met_stations[, tempdif := which.min(abs(temp - temp50s)), by=STATE]
met_stations[, recordid := 1:.N, by = STATE]
met_temp <- met_stations[recordid == tempdif, .(USAFID, temp, temp50s, STATE)]
met_temp## USAFID temp temp50s STATE
## 1: 720202 17.16329 17.98061 OR
## 2: 720254 19.24684 19.24684 WA
## 3: 720284 20.51970 20.51970 MI
## 4: 720328 21.94820 21.94446 WV
## 5: 720545 22.44858 22.36880 CT
## 6: 720592 26.31534 26.33664 AL
## 7: 720605 25.87364 25.80545 SC
## 8: 720636 23.99322 23.95109 MO
## 9: 720855 18.45570 18.52849 ND
## 10: 720964 27.57697 27.57325 FL
## 11: 722041 27.84758 27.87430 LA
## 12: 722133 27.14427 27.14427 OK
## 13: 722142 20.32324 20.56798 ID
## 14: 722188 26.07275 26.24296 AR
## 15: 722197 26.70404 26.70404 GA
## 16: 722218 24.89883 24.89883 MD
## 17: 722322 23.98226 23.88844 KY
## 18: 722358 26.54093 26.69258 MS
## 19: 722550 29.74982 29.75188 TX
## 20: 722692 24.37799 24.37799 VA
## 21: 722745 30.31538 30.32372 AZ
## 22: 722931 22.66268 22.66268 CA
## 23: 723060 24.70791 24.72953 NC
## 24: 723273 25.01262 24.88657 TN
## 25: 723658 24.94447 24.94447 NM
## 26: 724090 23.47238 23.47238 NJ
## 27: 724180 24.56026 24.56026 DE
## 28: 724200 22.03309 22.02062 OH
## 29: 724386 22.32575 22.25059 IN
## 30: 724555 24.21648 24.21220 KS
## 31: 724699 21.94228 21.49638 CO
## 32: 724855 24.34157 24.56293 NV
## 33: 724988 20.44142 20.40674 NY
## 34: 725064 21.40933 21.30662 MA
## 35: 725070 22.53551 22.53551 RI
## 36: 725130 21.69177 21.69177 PA
## 37: 725305 22.36831 22.43194 IL
## 38: 725526 21.87354 21.87354 NE
## 39: 725570 21.36209 21.33461 IA
## 40: 725724 24.39332 24.35182 UT
## 41: 726073 18.82098 18.79016 ME
## 42: 726115 18.60548 18.61379 VT
## 43: 726116 19.23920 19.55054 NH
## 44: 726438 18.85524 18.85524 WI
## 45: 726589 19.58483 19.63017 MN
## 46: 726627 20.35662 20.35662 SD
## 47: 726650 19.75554 19.80699 WY
## 48: 726777 19.15492 19.15492 MT
## USAFID temp temp50s STATE
# ATM press
met_stations[, tempdif := which.min(abs(atm.press - atmp50s)), by=STATE]
met_stations[recordid == tempdif, .(USAFID, atm.press, atmp50s, STATE)]## USAFID atm.press atmp50s STATE
## 1: 720254 NaN NA WA
## 2: 720855 NaN NA ND
## 3: 722029 1015.335 1015.335 FL
## 4: 722085 1015.298 1015.281 SC
## 5: 722093 1014.906 1014.927 MI
## 6: 722181 1015.208 1015.208 GA
## 7: 722269 1014.926 1014.959 AL
## 8: 722320 1014.593 1014.593 LA
## 9: 722340 1014.842 1014.836 MS
## 10: 722479 1012.464 1012.460 TX
## 11: 722745 1010.144 1010.144 AZ
## 12: 722899 1012.557 1012.557 CA
## 13: 723109 1015.420 1015.420 NC
## 14: 723300 1014.522 1014.522 MO
## 15: 723346 1015.144 1015.144 TN
## 16: 723436 1014.591 1014.591 AR
## 17: 723537 1012.567 1012.567 OK
## 18: 723600 1012.404 1012.525 NM
## 19: 724037 1015.158 1015.158 VA
## 20: 724040 1014.824 1014.824 MD
## 21: 724075 1014.825 1014.825 NJ
## 22: 724120 1015.757 1015.762 WV
## 23: 724180 1015.046 1015.046 DE
## 24: 724237 1015.236 1015.245 KY
## 25: 724286 1015.351 1015.351 OH
## 26: 724373 1015.063 1015.063 IN
## 27: 724586 1013.389 1013.389 KS
## 28: 724660 1013.334 1013.334 CO
## 29: 724860 1011.947 1012.204 NV
## 30: 725040 1014.810 1014.810 CT
## 31: 725053 1014.887 1014.887 NY
## 32: 725064 1014.721 1014.751 MA
## 33: 725070 1014.837 1014.728 RI
## 34: 725109 1015.474 1015.435 PA
## 35: 725440 1014.760 1014.760 IL
## 36: 725461 1014.957 1014.964 IA
## 37: 725555 1014.345 1014.332 NE
## 38: 725686 1013.157 1013.157 WY
## 39: 725755 1012.243 1011.972 UT
## 40: 725784 1012.908 1012.855 ID
## 41: 725895 1014.726 1015.269 OR
## 42: 726114 1014.792 1014.792 VT
## 43: 726155 1014.689 1014.689 NH
## 44: 726196 1014.323 1014.399 ME
## 45: 726425 1014.893 1014.893 WI
## 46: 726545 1014.497 1014.398 SD
## 47: 726559 1015.042 1015.042 MN
## 48: 726777 1014.299 1014.185 MT
## USAFID atm.press atmp50s STATE
# Wind speed
met_stations[, tempdif := which.min(abs(wind.sp - windsp50s)), by=STATE]
met_stations[recordid == tempdif, .(USAFID, wind.sp, windsp50s, STATE)]## USAFID wind.sp windsp50s STATE
## 1: 720254 1.268571 1.268571 WA
## 2: 720328 1.617823 1.633487 WV
## 3: 720386 2.617071 2.617071 MN
## 4: 720422 3.679474 3.680613 KS
## 5: 720492 1.408247 1.408247 VT
## 6: 720532 3.098777 3.098777 CO
## 7: 720602 1.616549 1.696119 SC
## 8: 720858 3.972789 3.956459 ND
## 9: 720951 1.493666 1.495596 GA
## 10: 720971 3.873392 3.873392 WY
## 11: 721031 1.513550 1.576035 TN
## 12: 722029 2.699017 2.705069 FL
## 13: 722076 2.244115 2.237622 IL
## 14: 722165 1.599550 1.636392 MS
## 15: 722202 3.404683 3.413737 TX
## 16: 722218 1.883499 1.883499 MD
## 17: 722275 1.662132 1.662132 AL
## 18: 722486 1.592840 1.592840 LA
## 19: 722676 3.776083 3.776083 NM
## 20: 722740 3.125322 3.074359 AZ
## 21: 722899 2.561738 2.565445 CA
## 22: 723010 1.641749 1.627306 NC
## 23: 723415 1.875302 1.938625 AR
## 24: 723545 3.852697 3.852697 OK
## 25: 723860 2.968539 3.035050 NV
## 26: 724006 1.650539 1.653032 VA
## 27: 724090 2.148606 2.148606 NJ
## 28: 724180 2.752929 2.752929 DE
## 29: 724303 2.606462 2.554397 OH
## 30: 724350 1.930836 1.895486 KY
## 31: 724373 2.347673 2.344333 IN
## 32: 724458 2.459746 2.453547 MO
## 33: 724700 3.180628 3.145427 UT
## 34: 725016 2.376050 2.304075 NY
## 35: 725079 2.583469 2.583469 RI
## 36: 725087 2.126514 2.101801 CT
## 37: 725088 2.773018 2.710944 MA
## 38: 725103 1.784167 1.784167 PA
## 39: 725464 2.679227 2.680875 IA
## 40: 725624 3.192539 3.192539 NE
## 41: 725867 2.702517 2.568944 ID
## 42: 725975 2.080792 2.011436 OR
## 43: 726056 1.556907 1.563826 NH
## 44: 726077 2.337241 2.237210 ME
## 45: 726284 2.273423 2.273423 MI
## 46: 726504 2.053283 2.053283 WI
## 47: 726519 3.665638 3.665638 SD
## 48: 726770 4.151737 4.151737 MT
## USAFID wind.sp windsp50s STATE
Knit the doc and save it on GitHub.
For each state, identify what is the station that is closest to the
mid-point of the state. Combining these with the stations you identified
in the previous question, use leaflet() to visualize all ~100 points
in the same figure, applying different colors for those identified in
this question.
Knit the doc and save it on GitHub.
Using the quantile() function, generate a summary table that shows the
number of states included, average temperature, wind-speed, and
atmospheric pressure by the variable “average temperature level,” which
you’ll need to create.
Start by computing the states’ average temperature. Use that measurement to classify them according to the following criteria:
- low: temp < 20
- Mid: temp >= 20 and temp < 25
- High: temp >= 25
Once you are done with that, you can compute the following:
- Number of entries (records),
- Number of NA entries,
- Number of stations,
- Number of states included, and
- Mean temperature, wind-speed, and atmospheric pressure.
All by the levels described before.
Knit the document, commit your changes, and push them to GitHub. If you’d like, you can take this time to include the link of the issue of the week so that you let us know when you are done, e.g.,
git commit -a -m "Finalizing lab 5 https://github.com/USCbiostats/PM566/issues/23"