Multi-site Forecast Workbook for Excel

Multi-Site Forecast Workbook

The Visual Crossing Weather Data Service enables users anywhere to load weather data into Excel, Google Sheets, Relational Databases, Business Intelligence Tools and more. We recently released a downloadable Weather Workbook that allows users to query weather data directly into Excel. In this blog we will show you the Multi-Site Forecast Workbook which is a …

How to Import Weather Forecast Data and Historical Weather Data into a MySQL Database

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 …

How to Find Weather Data for your Next Data Science Project

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 …

How to use weather forecasts to optimize Google Ads

Google Ads and other online advertising has become essential to every business. While it is obvious that every business needs to advertise online, business that have no online sales ability still find it valuable to reach out to potential customers while they are browsing the internet. Even businesses that are very local in their reach …

How to use weather forecasts to manage visual marketing and inventory

How to use weather forecasts to manage visual marketing and inventory

Use case: Manage the displays and local advertising for a chain of shoe stores based on weather forecasts. Ever since the inception of the retail trade, retailers have been using visual marketing techniques such as window displays, shelf layout and end-caps to entice customers. Intelligently managed product displays can attract customers into the store and …

Using Historical Weather Data to Investigate the Climate Change impact on Hurricane Barry

Using Historical Weather Data to Investigate the Climate Change impact on Hurricane Barry

As we near the end of the 2019 hurricane season, we look back on Hurricane Barry. As the first hurricane of the season, Hurricane Barry, was a relatively small storm and not nearly as impactful as some that came later. However, understanding it can give us a better understanding of the short-term and long-term impacts …