Desiree Murray - Front End
Amy Ngo - Clean up Data
Angela Timochina - Extract raw data to CSV file
The raw data is from http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/#hurdat about Atlantic hurricane database and the Northeast and North Central Pacific hurricane.
We used Python to convert the raw data into a CSV file. Then we imported the CSV file in RStudio and cleaned the data of both Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes.
The cleaned up data should be similar to the document and notes from http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/hurdat2-format-may2015.pdf.
The original CSV file has multiple mixed data in certain columns. Such as the Basin, ATCF, and Year were in a single string. Another example the Longitude and Latitude columns contain the hemisphere direction. The time column need extra 0's padding to get the fixed time. Lastly, the date column was a numeric range of the year, month and day. There were missing names of the hurricanes, thus those unknown names were given as Unnamed.