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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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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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Do you need weather data for a specific use case? Don’t want the hassle of setting up an account or buying an ongoing service plan? Maybe you just need your data along with a single, succinct receipt to submit to a 3rd-party for payment. Or maybe you need weather data for a one-off project such …
One of the best utilizations of weather data in business is for ensuring that your shipment of sensitive materials will not be damaged due to heat or cold exposure. Everything from candy, wine, beer, plants, photographs and pharmaceuticals can all have their quality dramatically impacted from the weather. You will get an immediate return on …
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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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US ZIP Codes act just like postal codes in other countries – they provide an easy and structured way to locate an address within a city and state. They are easy to remember and provide a reasonably precise geographical location. This makes them valuable for businesses and other organizations that want to collect information about …
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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 …
The Visual Crossing Weather API is a rich, restful API that you can use to get historical weather data, weather forecast data and even climate data sets into your database, analysis tool or coding project. The API has a rich set of parameters that may be overwhelming at first. In this blog, i describe the …
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Weather Data users typically have a varied systems, datasets and techniques they can work with to download the weather data they need. One common request is where they need extremely large datasets that would either take too long to generate, is unwieldy to download/transfer or it is just tedious to do daily, hourly or in …
This article shows the necessary steps to quickly and easily load historical weather data for any location of the world into the cloud solution ‘Qlik Sense’ for further analysis. 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 …
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