Our Use Case

Climatological data

For the rest of the course, we’ll use a specific dataset to illustrate the concepts that we will see. This doesn’t mean that we'll not see applications for other domains or datasets, but we will find that the narrative makes more sense when we’ve got a particular use case in mind. All code snippets in the course can be run within the platform.

We’ll use the dataset from the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States government. The mission of the NCEI is to manage and provide access to environmental data for researchers, government authorities, and private sector organizations. The NCEI has one of the largest archives of atmospheric, coastal, geophysical, and oceanic data in the world, which we can explore on their website.

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