The data for the project comes from:
the Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT2) 1851-2018 and the Northeast and North Central Pacific hurricane database (HURDAT2) 1949-2018 at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/#hurdat
Information on the file format:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/hurdat2-format-may2015.pdf
Data can be cleaned by running files in data folder under zip file