Java Programming: Solving Problems with Software

Programming Exercise: Parsing Weather Data

Assignment
You will write a program to find the c​
oldest​
day of the year and other interesting facts about the
temperature and humidity in a day. To test your program, you will use the ​
nc_weather​
data
folder that has a folder for each year; you can download a .zip folder with these files by clicking
. In the ​
here​ year​
folder there is a CSV file for every day of the year; each file has the following
​eather­2014­01­08.csv​
information. For example, in the 2014 folder, we show parts of the file w ,
the weather data from January 8, 2014.

You will write a program with several methods and tester methods to test each method you
write. You should start by understanding the methods from the lesson to find the hottest
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temperature in a day (and thus in a file) and the hottest temperature in many files and their
tester methods. You can use these to write similar methods.

Specifically you should write the following methods.

1. 1. Write a method named ​

coldestHourInFile​
that has one parameter, a CSVParser named
. This method returns the ​
parser​ CSVRecord​
with the coldest temperature in the file and
thus all the information about the coldest temperature, such as the hour of the coldest
temperature. You should also write a void method named ​
testColdestHourInFile()​
to test
this method and print out information about that coldest temperature, such as the time of its
occurrence.

NOTE: Sometimes there was not a valid reading at a specific hour, so the temperature field says
­9999. You should ignore these bogus temperature values when calculating the lowest temperature.

2. 2. Write the method ​

fileWithColdestTemperature​
that has no parameters. This method
should return a string that is the name of the file from selected files that has the coldest
temperature. You should also write a void method named
testFileWithColdestTemperature()​
to test this method. Note that after determining the
filename, you could call the method ​
coldestHourInFile​
to determine the coldest temperature
on that day. When ​
fileWithColdestTemperature​
runs and selects the files for January 1–3
in 2014, the method should print out:

Coldest day was in file weather­2014­01­03.csv

Coldest temperature on that day was 21.9
All the Temperatures on the coldest day were:
2014­01­03 05:51:00: 41.0
2014­01­03 06:51:00: 39.0
2014­01­03 07:51:00: 35.1
2014­01­03 08:51:00: 30.9
2014­01­03 09:51:00: 28.0
2014­01­03 10:51:00: 25.0
2014­01­03 11:51:00: 24.1
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2014­01­03 12:51:00: 23.0

2014­01­03 13:51:00: 25.0
2014­01­03 14:51:00: 26.1
2014­01­03 15:51:00: 28.0
2014­01­03 16:51:00: 30.0
2014­01­03 17:51:00: 30.9
2014­01­03 18:51:00: 33.1
2014­01­03 19:51:00: 33.1
2014­01­03 20:51:00: 33.1
2014­01­03 21:51:00: 30.9
2014­01­03 22:51:00: 28.9
2014­01­03 23:51:00: 28.9
2014­01­04 00:51:00: 26.1
2014­01­04 01:51:00: 24.1
2014­01­04 02:51:00: 24.1
2014­01­04 03:51:00: 23.0
2014­01­04 04:51:00: 21.9

3. Write a method named ​

lowestHumidityInFile​
that has one parameter, a CSVParser
named parser. This method returns the CSVRecord that has the lowest humidity. If there
is a tie, then return the first such record that was found.
Note that sometimes there is not a number in the Humidity column but instead there is
the string “N/A”. This only happens very rarely. You should check to make sure the value
you get is not “N/A” before converting it to a number.
​imeEST​
Also note that the header for the time is either T or ​
TimeEDT​
, depending on the
​ateUTC​
time of year. You will instead use the D field at the right end of the data file to get
both the date and time of a temperature reading.
You should also write a void method named t​
estLowestHumidityInFile()​
to test this
method that starts with these lines:
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FileResource fr = new FileResource();

CSVParser parser = fr.getCSVParser();
CSVRecord csv = lowestHumidityInFile(parser);
and then prints the ​
lowest humidity AND the time the lowest humidity occurred​
. For
​eather­2014­01­20.csv​
example, for the file w , the output should be:
Lowest Humidity was 24 at 2014­01­20 19:51:00
NOTE: If you look at the data for January 20, 2014, you will note that the Humidity was
also 24 at 3:51pm, but you are supposed to r​
eturn the first such record​
that was
found.

4. Write the method ​

lowestHumidityInManyFiles​
that has no parameters. This method
returns a CSVRecord that has the lowest humidity over all the files. If there is a tie, then
return the first such record that was found. You should also write a void method named
testLowestHumidityInManyFiles()​
to test this method and to print the lowest humidity
AND the time the lowest humidity occurred. Be sure to test this method on two files so
you can check if it is working correctly. If you run this program and select the files for
January 19, 2014 and January 20, 2014, you should get
Lowest Humidity was 24 at 2014­01­20 19:51:00

5. Write the method ​

averageTemperatureInFile​
that has one parameter, a CSVParser
named parser. This method returns a double that represents the average temperature in
the file. You should also write a void method named ​
testAverageTemperatureInFile()
to test this method. When this method runs and selects the file for January 20, 2014, the
method should print out
​
Average temperature in file is 44.93333333333334

6. Write the method ​

averageTemperatureWithHighHumidityInFile​
that has two
parameters, a CSVParser named parser and an integer named value. This method
returns a double that represents the average temperature of only those temperatures
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when the humidity was greater than or equal to value. You should also write a void
method named ​
testAverageTemperatureWithHighHumidityInFile()​
to test this
method. When this method runs checking for humidity greater than or equal to 80 and
selects the file for January 20, 2014, the method should print out
No temperatures with that humidity
If you run the method checking for humidity greater than or equal to 80 and select the file
for March 20, 2014, a wetter day, the method should print out
Average Temp when high Humidity is 41.78666666666667