The goal of this milestone report is to display what have been gotten by working with the sample data from the blogs, news and twitter texts provided by Swiftkey and demonstrate the project is on track to create the prediction algorithm.

This analysis explores the NOAA Storm Database to figure out the weather events that are the most harmful to the health and to the economy in United States.

This document describes how to encode character strings in R by demonstrating Encoding(), enc2native(), enc2utf8(), iconv() and iconvlist(). Finally, it is coded and tested the custom function safe.iconvlist() that aims to list successfully tested supported encodings from a source encoding to all supposedly supported encodings for the current platform by avoiding runtime errors and non-convertible strings.