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How to load weather forecast data into TIBCO Spotfire via ODATA request

This article shows the necessary steps to quickly and easily load weather forecast data for any location of the world into TIBCO Spotfire via ODATA request.  The tutorial shows step-by-step how to construct the query in the Visual Crossing Weather web interface, how to access the automatically generated connection string and then create a data …

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How to add historical weather data to TIBCO Spotfire via ODATA request

This article shows the necessary steps to quickly and easily load historical weather data sets for any location of the world into TIBCO Spotfire via ODATA request.  The tutorial shows step-by-step how to construct the query in the Visual Crossing Weather web interface, how to access the automatically generated connection string and then create a …

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How to load weather forecast data as a Microsoft Excel XLSX file

This articles shows how to download weather forecast data as a standard Excel file format that can be opened into Microsoft Excel or imported into other applications that understand the Microsoft Excel XLSX format. If you would prefer, you can also download weather data in CSV format. See how to download weather forecast data or …

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How to load weather forecast data into Oracle Analytics Desktop

This article shows the necessary steps to retrieve weather forecast data for any location of the world and load it into Oracle Analytics Desktop for further analysis.  The tutorial shows step-by-step how to construct the query in the Visual Crossing Weather web interface and then import the weather forecast results as csv file into Oracle …

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How to load historical weather data into Oracle Analytics Desktop?

Downloading historical weather data for multiple locations provides a fast and simple way to enrich your business data in Oracle Analytics Desktop with matching weather parameters to analyze their impact on business. This article shows the necessary steps to generate weather data for any location of the world and how to load it into Oracle …

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Add location and date time filters to ODATA weather data requests

The Visual Crossing Weather API supports requesting data using OData requests. This makes it easy to integrate weather data into tools that support the ODATA specification. In this article we discuss how to extend the basic ODATA requests to create dynamic queries using ODATA filters. The basic ODATA request As the introductory article discusses, the …

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Understanding and optimizing the Visual Crossing Weather Pay-as-you-go plan

The Visual Crossing Weather Pay-as-you-go plan (also known as the Metered plan) is one of the easiest-to-use and the most cost-effective weather data plans available today. It is designed to meet the needs of many different types of weather data users and also be a great way for new users to get started using weather …

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How are weather metrics calculated over various time periods in different weather queries?

While it may seem like an easily-answered question, sometimes it is not completely obvious what exact time periods are covered by a given weather query and how the weather metrics are calculated. The fact is that the traditional standards and customs of weather reporting make up a standard that although logical may not always appear …

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