Data Science Fall 2022

Group 3 - Los Pollos Hermanos

Dean Vogel, Julian Lioanag, Nathan Agpalo, Bill Ni

Optimal placement of renewable energy sources (wind, solar, geothermal) based on energy strength, energy consumption, distance to populated areas, crime rate, natural disaster frequency, and other notable factors.

Data Sources

Population

Datafile: gpw_pop.asc

• Data is for 2020 values
• Datafile is zipped, unzip to view properly
• Datafile is ASCII format, printed as space-separated values, where each number is a value for that pixel in 8640 by 4320 grid

Sourced from: NASA SEDAC

Wind Speed

Datafile: avg_wind_speed.nc

• Data is from 2012 to 2022
• Datafile is NetCDF format, tracking average wind speed on surface

Sourced from: NASA Giovanni

Solar Energy (Incident Surface Shortwave Radiation)

Datafile: avg_wind_speed.nc

• Data is from 2019-01-01 to 2022-11-30
• Datafile is NetCDF format, tracking time-averaged solar energy (AKA incident surface shortwave radiation) usable by solar panels on surface

Sourced from: NASA Giovanni

Vegetation (Leaf Area Index)

Datafile: avg_wind_speed.nc

• Data is from 2022-01-01 to 2022-10-31
• Datafile is NetCDF format, tracking time-averaged vegetation on land

Sourced from: NASA Giovanni

Earthquakes

Datafile: earthquakes.tsv

• Data is for years 2012 to 2022
• Only selected earthquakes with magnitude ≥ 6, as that is the start of severe building damage
• Datafile is TSV format, each row is an occurrence

Sourced from: NOAA

Tsunamis

Datafile: runups.tsv

• Data is for years 2012 to 2022
• Only selected tsunamis that are "definite", which means there is documentable proof that it occurred
• Datafile is TSV format, each row is an occurrence
• Data does not display source of tsunamis but rather locations affected by tsunamis

Sourced from: NOAA

Tropical Cyclones / Hurricanes

Datafile: hurricanes.csv.zip

• Data is for years 1980 to 2022
• Only displayed data for years 2012 to 2022
• Datafile is CSV format, each row is an occurrence
• Datafile is zipped, unzip to view properly

Sourced from: NOAA NCEI

Map

See here for most up-to-date visualization

(Visualization was originally a single picture but data overlays became too condensed and hard to see.)

Legend:

• Teal shading: population
• Red X's: earthquakes
• Blue X's: tsunamis
• Teal lines: hurricanes
• Green pins: vegetation
• Blue pins: wind speed
• Red pins: solar energy

Notes:

• The box on the left side of the pin represents the location, and the "prick" on the right side of the pin represents the value. The longer the "prick", the higher the average value.

Installation

make venv
make install

Execution

make -j10 runall

-j flag is optional for parallel execution, 10 signifies number of simultaneous threads

If sequential execution is preferred, use command written below instead

make runall