The goal of this document is to explain the exploratory analysis and eventual goals toward creating a prediction algorithm and building a shiny app. It explains some of the major features of the data I have identified and briefly summarize my plans for the prediction algorithm and Shiny app in a way that would be understandable to a non-data scientist manager.

In this report we aim to assess the impact that severe weather events have on health and on the economy of the United States of America. We do this by exploring data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) storm database in order to discover which types of events are most harmful with respect to population health and which types of events have the greatest economic consequences.