Chapter 3. Working with Time Series Data
In the last chapter, we looked at four different types of graphs: pie, bar, scatter plot, and box plot. In this chapter we slow down a little and focus on building up a multi-line graph using historic weather data. The data is available from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) via NOAA (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data/land-based-datasetsglobal-historical-climatology-network-ghcn).
The GHCN provides a rich set of data. There are weather stations around the world and readings going back as far as 1763. I chose a relatively small data file from 1836 for this chapter. In that year there were five stations reporting temperature.
Let’s see what that data looks like! ...
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