1. Global Warming By: Jagat Ramdin

2. Average sunspots over time

3. Notes From the green, it is possible to see the monthly average of sunspots over time. There is a clear and unsurprising oscillation pattern in the data as well. Maybe, in an effort to give all the information, adding in the deviation would’ve been good, but I’d rather answer why it was unreliable, due to the formula used early years, if it’s brought up.

4. Cumulative Sunspots per year

5. Notes Each peak represents the total number of sunspots that year. From this, a clear trend of alternating series of high and low number of sunspots per year can be seen. Also of note is the third cycle had uncharacteristically number of sunspots compared to its counterparts. Whether by chance of by design, the elevated cycle began post-Industrial Revolution and WWII. Viewing the bottom of the graph of the solid red color, looking at that alone one can see 2 left-skewed curves with the third shifting to the right into becoming a more standard bell curve. Performing some kind of analysis on what this would mean for the actual graph would have been interesting, but not sure how that’d be done. I would’ve liked to deduce the sign function for the first 2 cycles and plot that over this graph to show just by how much the third cycle elevated.

6. Cumulative Sunspots since 1748

7. Notes What the graph shows is the black line the accumulation of sunspots since recording began in 1748. The blue line is what it’d look like if it was completely uniform. From this graph, we see that it was the recent years, specifically from around 1950, in which an acceleration in the frequency of sunspots occurs. Because the slope of the ends coincide with the uniform line, there may be a indication that what we’re witnessing is simply part of a greater cycle and that increase, rather than being a deviation, is actually supposed to happen after a specific amount of cycles. I would’ve liked to have added a tangent to the middle prior of the graph prior to the increasing frequency for comparisons of the 2 frequencies. Analyzing the deviations from the uniform line would’ve been nice as well but how to show that data and have it be meaningful would’ve been difficult.