Atlantic hurricanes - (United) States at risk

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This infographic shows tropical and subtropical cyclones between 1851-2017. While the original report is interactive - this snapshot shows three hurricanes selected in 2005 and related tracking is shown in the right hand network visualization. Left hand side shows overall impact on states, counties and cities given related landfall impact.

Data obtained from National Hurricane Center using the Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT2).

[Bal23]

@FalkoSchulz Thank you. Would you please show me how to do it with SAS Viya? I would like to read something in written.

[FalkoSchulz]

Hi @Bal23 - can you be more specific what information you need? The example was created by importing the linked data source into SAS Viya (I can share the data prep code if you need help here). Then I used SAS Visual Analytics 8.3 and related visualizations in the object panel to design this infographic. I started off by adding a beautiful photograph of earth as full screen background. I decided to use precision layout container here as I wanted to overlay visuals on top of the background picture. Then I added a number of visualizations - including a regional geo map showing total number of storms by state as well as on city level. Creating the storm path visualization (right hand side, network viz on geo) can be a bit tricky since it requires a special network data set structure. Given the data was supplied in a 6-hrs interval - it was in fact just a matter of creating a network link between last storm location and the location 6hrs later. The SAS Visual Analytics documentation contains additional information about all visualizations the app supports.

Hope this helps. Falko 

[Bal23]

Thank you for your explanation. Please share your code.

[FalkoSchulz]

No problem. I have attached the data step code I have written to prepare the data to the blog. Note, the code is for illustration purposes only and may need further tweaks dependent on your environment or if input data from NHC changes. Hope this helps. Falko

[Bal23]

Nice work! Thank you!