{"id":1195,"date":"2012-01-31T21:07:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2012-02-04T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T11:00:35","slug":"on-twisters-and-killer-tornados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/on-twisters-and-killer-tornados\/","title":{"rendered":"On Twisters and Killer Tornados"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Tornado\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusRus.de\/Blog-files\/torn.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Given the trouble I got into after my post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/japan-earthquake-an-exploratory-view\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japan earthquake<\/a>, I probably should stay put when it comes to looking at data on hazardous events &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More seriously, as statistician (or data analyst in general) we often lack the expertise from the domain expert, who usually collected the data. Today, in a &#8220;data everywhere&#8221; world, we are in the fortunate position to easily access interesting data from various domains, but probably don&#8217;t know much about the background.<\/p>\n<p>Thus I was happy to see the three posts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/drjimmyc.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/killer-tornado-perspective.html\" target=\"_blank\">Killer tornado perspective<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/drjimmyc.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/tornado-reports-year-in-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tornado reports year in review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/drjimmyc.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/tornado-days.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tornado days<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>on Jim&#8217;s blog. As Jim has\u00a0a BS from SUNYA in Atmospheric Sciences, MS from FSU in Meteorology, and a PhD from ISU in Agricultural Meteorology, I am pretty sure he knows enough about tornados to reason beyond speculations.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the data (5.5MB)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theusRus.de\/Blog-files\/torn.csv\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to play around yourself, which was compiled from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/wcm\/\">NOAA website<\/a>. If you need a tool, you might be happy to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theusRus.de\/Mondrian\" target=\"_blank\">Mondrian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PS: Jim agreed to write a guest post in the next few weeks, so we might learn a bit more on tornados here soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the trouble I got into after my post on the Japan earthquake, I probably should stay put when it comes to looking at data on hazardous events &#8230; More seriously, as statistician (or data analyst in general) we often lack the expertise from the domain expert, who usually collected the data. Today, in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}