pyEmdat

pyEmdat is a library for analysis of the EMDAT natural disasters dataset. It allows to:

• Load and clean EMDAT data

• Summarize disaster statistics by country (single time period & annual time series)

• Summarize disaster statistics by hazard type (single time period & annual time series)

• Combine with population and GNI data (via World Development Indicators API)

• Create choropleth maps.

Contents

API reference:

• emdat_df
  • class emdat
• utils

Possible extensions

• more functions to clean and summarize the dataset.

• converting historical damage data from nominal to real terms (eg. constant 2010 USD).

• additional data structures to load & clean Desinventar or other disaster datasets.

Dependencies

• pandas, wbdata (required)

• geopandas (recommended)