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Weather data is essential to the management and planning of many different industries.  Although the use cases vary, the basic requirements for a successful, valuable weather deployment are constant. The first ingredient is business data.  Every business records data such as sales, customers, operation tempo, inventory levels, job site status, and energy consumption.  The more …

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Insurance professionals are often called upon to verify insurance claims to see if they make sense given the surrounding circumstances. Frequently those claims involve questions relating to weather.  For example, the claimant may report that a heavy storm toppled a tree onto a shed.  Did a storm with destructive winds likely come through the claimant’s …

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At its core weather data comes as the result of observing and recording the physical environment around us and around the world. Weather itself is a natural phenomenon that occurs due to various natural cycles on earth such as solar heating, ocean currents, and the chemical composition of our environment. Weather data, then, is just …

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In this article, we are going to import weather data into a MySQL database. In addition to setting up the database tables, we will demonstrate techniques to import both historical weather data and weather forecast data. We will include the ways to retrieve the weather data and how to set up a script so the …

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The use of weather data in data science is hugely varied and there are applications in all applied verticals. However at the heart of all data science projects are accurate, trustworthy weather datasets. In this article, we’ll explain the types of weather data available for data science, how to get them, how to make sure …

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