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Numeric

20180723 Summaries of numeric data are provided using base::summary(). In the following we identify the numeric variables and summarise each. In doing so, as a data scientist, we want to again observe any oddities and to explain them.

ds %>%
  sapply(is.numeric) %>%
  which() %>%
  names %T>%
  print() ->
numi

##  [1] "min_temp"        "max_temp"        "rainfall"        "evaporation"...
##  [5] "sunshine"        "wind_gust_speed" "wind_speed_9am"  "wind_speed_3...
##  [9] "humidity_9am"    "humidity_3pm"    "pressure_9am"    "pressure_3pm...
## [13] "cloud_9am"       "cloud_3pm"       "temp_9am"        "temp_3pm"   ...
## [17] "risk_mm"

ds[numi] %>%
  summary()

##     min_temp        max_temp        rainfall        evaporation    
##  Min.   :-8.70   Min.   :-4.10   Min.   :  0.000   Min.   :  0.00  
##  1st Qu.: 7.50   1st Qu.:18.10   1st Qu.:  0.000   1st Qu.:  2.80  
##  Median :12.00   Median :22.80   Median :  0.000   Median :  4.80  
##  Mean   :12.15   Mean   :23.36   Mean   :  2.241   Mean   :  5.53  
##  3rd Qu.:16.90   3rd Qu.:28.40   3rd Qu.:  0.600   3rd Qu.:  7.40  
##  Max.   :33.90   Max.   :48.90   Max.   :474.000   Max.   :133.90  
##  NA's   :2349    NA's   :2105    NA's   :4318      NA's   :86289   
##     sunshine     wind_gust_speed  wind_speed_9am  wind_speed_3pm 
##  Min.   : 0.00   Min.   :  2.00   Min.   : 0.00   Min.   : 0.00  
##  1st Qu.: 4.90   1st Qu.: 31.00   1st Qu.: 7.00   1st Qu.:13.00  
##  Median : 8.50   Median : 39.00   Median :13.00   Median :19.00  
##  Mean   : 7.66   Mean   : 40.19   Mean   :14.05   Mean   :18.72  
##  3rd Qu.:10.60   3rd Qu.: 48.00   3rd Qu.:19.00   3rd Qu.:24.00  
##  Max.   :14.50   Max.   :135.00   Max.   :87.00   Max.   :87.00  
##  NA's   :93859   NA's   :13036    NA's   :2924    NA's   :5434   
....

Reviewing this information we can make some obvious observations. Temperatures, for example, appears to be in degrees Celsius rather than Fahrenheit. Rainfall looks like millimetres. There are some quite skewed distributions with min and median small but large max values. As data scientists we will further explore the distributions as in Chapter .