Tracking Shark Catch in California via Social Media

This project is aimed at an exploratory look at understanding health risks related to the the data in the **Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System** (BRFSS) dataset published by the CDC. All data is publicly available and can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/.

Made this map using leaflet package in Rstudio along with data scraping using the Google Maps API

This analysis explores the Storm Event Database from NOAA in an effort to answer two main questions: 1) Across the United States, which types of events (as indicated in the EVTYPE variable) are most harmful with respect to population health? 2) Across the United States, which types of events have the greatest economic consequences?