This assignment can be done using any programming language or application that you can. The basic assignment is similar to the previous one having both a data management component and a graphical output component. Only this time, the data file is quite large and contains many parameters.

Follow all the instructions below, explicitly:

  1. Get the Data File Note this file is a gzipped file so you will have to find an application to unzip it.

    This data is a master data file for Atlantic Basin Hurricanes. Note that the data fields in this file contain both numbers and alpha characters.

    There are nine columns of information:

    • Column 1 is Storm ID
    • Column 2 is name of storm
    • Column 3,4 is lat/long
    • Column 5/6 is wind speed and central pressure
    • Column 7 is year
    • Column 8 is some running date field in units of hours.
    • Column 9 is a descriptor


  2. You are to do read/write and list operations on this file to feed the output directly (e.g cut and paste into) to This code in the Google Chart library

  3. You will submit both your programming script and the required graph. Make a screen shoot of the entire code playground window. Upload those things as a SINGLE document using the upload submission form

  4. You are to write a program that determines the following:

    • The frequency of Hurricane events (this excludes systems that remain as Tropical Storms) - this is the number of hurricanes per decade
    • The minimum value of central pressure in each of these hurricanes.


    Your column plot should then plot on the X-axis the decade starting in 1920 and ending in 2010. The Y-axis should be binned categories of central pressure with a bin width of 10 units (units are millibars in this case). So instead of the shown countries (the default configuration for this plot) there should instead be bin ranges in Central pressure and your counting the number of hurricanes in those bins as a function of decade.

  5. Submit your program and your graph as a single document (PDF is fine).

  6. This is due by 10 pm on Thursday April 17


In class on April 18 we will discuss this assignment and show various ways to tackle it. Hopefully we will be using your work for this and not ours.

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