{"id":72,"date":"2014-02-15T19:57:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T19:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/existencia.org\/pro\/?p=72"},"modified":"2014-02-15T20:07:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T20:07:36","slug":"tools-for-cred-em-dat-database-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/existencia.org\/pro\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Tools for Analyzing the EM-DAT Disaster Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CRED EM-DAT database is a collection of information about disasters, which you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emdat.be\/database\">search and download<\/a>.  However, the form that its provided in can be inconvenient for immediate cross-country analysis.  Here you can download it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/existencia.org\/files\/sd\/disasters\/list.xls\">spreadsheet<\/a> (along with the requisite <a href=\"https:\/\/existencia.org\/files\/sd\/disasters\/agreement.txt\">agreement<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Given the unreliability of this data, sometimes the best analysis is the simplest.  But I made three tools for some additional work.  These are MATLAB functions, and the first step is to export a subset of the data as a csv, with the date columns formatted as numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Simple plotting of EM-DAT totals (with running average): <a href=\"https:\/\/existencia.org\/files\/sd\/disasters\/plottots.zip\">download zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/existencia.org\/files\/sd\/disasters\/peoplepts.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plotting the probability of disasters of a given size: <a href=\"https:\/\/existencia.org\/files\/sd\/disasters\/limitlines.zip\">download zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/existencia.org\/files\/sd\/disasters\/floodprob_pk.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Attempt to find a power-law in disasters frequencies (changing in time): <a href=\"https:\/\/existencia.org\/files\/sd\/disasters\/powerlaw.zip\">download zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/existencia.org\/files\/sd\/disasters\/allfloods.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CRED EM-DAT database is a collection of information about disasters, which you can search and download. However, the form that its provided in can be inconvenient for immediate cross-country analysis. Here you can download it as a spreadsheet (along with the requisite agreement). Given the unreliability of this data, sometimes the best analysis is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Zh9E-1a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/existencia.org\/pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/existencia.org\/pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/existencia.org\/pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/existencia.org\/pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/existencia.org\/pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/existencia.org\/pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/existencia.org\/pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/existencia.org\/pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/existencia.org\/pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}