Data Loading and Cleaning
Our group decided to continue with the Storm Events in the US data. Upon examining the data, it appears that there are no problems. The data is consistent, complete, and columns are specified correctly.
Because the data set is large, we are planning on creating subsets of the data based on location throughout the U.S. and date. For locations, we will create subsets categorized by east coast, west coast, mid-west, south-west, and south. For dates, we will create subsets categorized by years and months.
There does not appear to be any missing values within our dataset, therefore, we will not have to remove any missing values.