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Dan Hong

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Public Health and Property Costs from Weather Events 1950-2011
Using data from the National Weather Service, this study identified the top 10 most damaging types of weather events in terms of public health and property damage from 1950-2011.
Daily Physical Activity Using Wearables
Wearable devices, such as Fitbit and Jawbone's Up, are promoting the "quanitified self" movement, which enables enthusiasts to measurably track their health as they exercise over time. Created for the Coursera course Reproducible Research.
Political Views and Gun Ownership
This retrospective observational study uses random sampling from the General Society Survey to explore one popular correlation: Is there is a relationship between a person’s political views and gun ownership? Submitted as a course project for the Coursera class Data and Statistical Inference.
crimeVis
An interactive Shiny app that creates a choropleth map of crime in the U.S. in 1973. Created as my course project for Coursera's Developing Data Products class.
Predicting Type of Exercise via Weareable Devices
This project details the process in creating a random-forest classifier to predict the type of exercise a person did using a wearable device.