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Drought Effects On Corn

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Motivation

Corn is a multipurpose crop. We use its derivatives every day in products like pharmaceutical, textiles, sweeteners and is blended in fuel for our vehicles, making it an indispensable asset for the U.S. economy. Therefore, it is important to know how extreme weather evetns like drought, affect the production, yield and price of corn.

Data

National Drought Mitigation Center- Weekly Drought Report

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration- Monthly Drought GeoJson

National Integrated Drought Information System- County Product and State Boundaries GeoJson

United States Department of Agriculture -Quick Stats Site

USDA - Clean CSVs

Preparation

Installations and Tools

To Replicate this project from the start you will need: Python, Pandas and Plotly

$ pip insall plotly==4.1.0

or

conda install -c plotly=4.1.0

As well as..

Mapbox & Mapbox API Key

Leaflet

GeoJSON Merging

Authors

Oswald Vinueza

Research, Data Gathering, Data Cleaning, CSV Conversion to SQLite, Map Visualizations, Domestic Use Visualization and Overall Concept.

Michael Harper

Data Cleaning, Corn Subsidies and Corn Yield Visualization

William Copeland

Corn Planted vs Yield Visualiztion, Flask Setup, HTML transfer and Connection to Heroku.