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Edexcel Large Data Set

The document outlines a large data set from five UK weather stations and three overseas stations, detailing various meteorological measurements such as temperature, rainfall, sunshine hours, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, cloud cover, pressure, and visibility. It specifies the time periods for data collection and provides guidelines for data cleaning, including how to handle trace amounts of rain and missing data. Additionally, it explains the Beaufort scale for wind categorization and the measurement units used throughout the data set.

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Edexcel Large Data Set

The document outlines a large data set from five UK weather stations and three overseas stations, detailing various meteorological measurements such as temperature, rainfall, sunshine hours, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, cloud cover, pressure, and visibility. It specifies the time periods for data collection and provides guidelines for data cleaning, including how to handle trace amounts of rain and missing data. Additionally, it explains the Beaufort scale for wind categorization and the measurement units used throughout the data set.

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The Large Data Set

Five UK weather stations: Daily Mean Temperature Degrees Celsius (°C)


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Camborne
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Heathrow Daily Total Rainfall Millimetres (mm)
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Hurn A ‘trace or tr’ of rain is an amount less than 0.05mm. When cleaning
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Leeming data these should be changed to 0.
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Leuchars Daily Total Sunshine Hours (hrs)
The amount of bright sunshine recorded on the day of entry.
Three overseas weather
stations: Daily Maximum Relative Humidity (%)
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Beijing The relative humidity is a measure of how close the air is to being
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Jacksonville saturated with water vapour. Relative humidities of above 95% are
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Perth (In the southern associated with mist and fog.
hemisphere, so winter is Daily Mean Windspeed and Daily Maximum Gust Knots (kn)
June to August) 1 knot = 1.15mph
The speed of the wind is also categorised according to the Beaufort
Time periods: May to scale: a discrete 13 point scale from 0 (Calm) to 12 (Hurricane). In
October 1987 and May to the data set we have: Light (Beaufort Scale 1 – 3), Moderate
October 2015. (Beaufort Scale 4) and Fresh (Beaufort Scale 5).
Daily Mean Wind Direction and Daily Maximum Gust Direction
degrees from true north (°)
Direction of 180 degrees means the wind is blowing from the south.
These are also listed as cardinal directions (eg. NE).
Cloud cover measured in eighths (Oktas).
Beijing • Discrete 9 point scale from 0 (completely clear) to 8 (completely
• overcast).
Jacksonville
Pressure Hectopascals (hPa)
1 hPa = 100 Pa
Visibility Decametres (Dm)
1 Dm = 10 m
Perth • Visibility is defined as the greatest distance at which an object can be
seen and recognized in daylight.
A dash indicates data not available. When cleaning data these should
be removed.
A reading which is not available is listed as ‘n/a’. When
cleaning data these should be removed.

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