This presentation is a companion to a language detection Shiny app that determines the language(s) that a user-supplied text is possibly written in, and then enables the user to select one of the top-scoring languages to visualise word frequencies in the text and in the language's corpus.

Based on storm data from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS), this report assesses the effects that severe weather effects have had on US population health and economy between 1996 and 2011.