Publications by Kevin Zolea on Kevin Zolea
NJ Air Quality Viewer
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US Census Bureau Shiny App
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Case Study Analysis of Easterly Wave Formation in the East Pacific
Easterly waves are weak troughs of low pressure that propagate westward across the Atlantic and East Pacific. These disturbances seed the majority of East Pacific and Atlantic tropical cyclones. Most easterly waves originate from Africa, although recent work indicates that they can also be locally generated in the East Pacific. This study analyze...
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Analyzing the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation in the NCEP Global Forecast System
Forecasting the diurnal cycle of precipitation over the continental United States (CONUS) is a problematic process for most global forecast systems. A majority tends to have a strong bias and they don’t provide a skilled prediction of the intensity, coverage and frequency of the diurnal cycle. Accurately forecasting the diurnal precipitation cy...
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Creating a website with the academic theme in blogdown
Introduction: I have been told by a countless number of people that creating a personal website is a great way to showcase your skills and tell your story. I have been contemplating this for some time but kept procrastinating. The two biggest excuses I kept telling myself was that it would be too difficult & it would cost money. Boy was I wrong! ...
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Using the USGS dataRetrieval package to analyze continuous water quality data
Introduction Being that I work for the Division of Water Monitoring & Standards, I have to analyze a lot of water quality data. A majority of the data is in house from the samples we collect but most times I have to download data from online sources. These online sources usually consist of the same organizations and most have a pretty straight fo...
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Quick Tips For Customizing Your R Leaflet Map
Overview Maps are apart of our everyday lives. They can be seen in almost every industry and are useful for numerous different purposes. A lot of the time these maps are static. Sometimes, however, it’s extremely useful to interact with the data on the map. This is where the Leaflet package comes in. This post will go over what the Leaflet pack...
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Making a plot of December snowfall data in NJ with R’s ggplot2 & rnoaa
What is this post about? Today on my way to work I was speaking to my girlfriend on the phone and somehow a conversation started about what are the chances that we will have a white Christmas this year. Being that Christmas is only a few days out and the fact that I love anything relating to the environment and data. I figured I would get to the ...
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Tracking Covid19 Cases Throughout NJ with R
Introduction With all this Covid19 madness going on in the world, I felt inspired to utilize the vast amount of data we have from it. I came across a dataset by the The NY Times. From reading over the GitHub repository, they obtain this time series data from state and local governments and health departments. To get a better sense of the data ple...
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