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Typhoons and the Philippines

Color the deadliest typhoons in the Philippines over the past 70 years to see how storms are increasing in intensity

Data sources

Casualty data for the ten deadliest typhoons in the Philippines since 1947 have been retrieved from a variety of sources:

The numbers that are represented in the coloring activity include the number of people dead or missing in the Philippines as a direct result of each Typhoon or Tropical Storm.

How the data was used

Code

A python script is available in the code repository to generate or extend this activity, and can be run like this:

python typhoons.py

Which will create an svg file with the circles drawn above the timeline of storms.