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This article shows the necessary steps to quickly and easily load weather forecast 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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Note – If you want to use this plugin right away, you can download the ready-to-install version from the WordPress plugins directory. WordPress is a hugely popular content management system used by hundreds of millions of sites across the internet to build websites and blogs. In fact, it bills itself as “the world’s most popular …
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Many weather data applications such as weather widgets, weather analytics tools and information displays find it useful to communicate the current weather conditions. These conditions include current temperature, wind speed and direction, recent precipitation and more. Looking up the current weather conditions for one or more locations is easy in the Visual Crossing Weather API. …
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Google Apps Script also known as Apps Script or sometimes Google Script, is a scripting language based on JavaScript and used within Google’s G Suite applications. Although it started life as a side project within Google Sheets, today it is used as a scripting language within all of the Google apps family including Google Sheets, …
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I am currently investigating the relationship between weather conditions and accidents by using a dataset of road accidents in Fairfax County, Virginia obtained from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. The first step to perform the analysis is to combine the accident data with the historical weather conditions. In this article, we will discuss how …
The above error indicates that the servers have identified that the account is attempting to execute more weather requests at a single time than is allowed by the current plan. When a request above the permitted limit is executed, the HTTP response code returned will be “429 Too Many Requests”. In the case of plans …
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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Some more complex weather API requests such as history summary requests can take longer times to execute. In those cases, we offer the ability to execute the requests asynchronously. In these cases, the same weather API request is made but, rather than waiting for the full request to complete and return data, the request will …
The standard Visual Crossing Weather query page makes it easy to create weather API queries and download CSV data for multiple weeks or months and multiple locations. However, sometimes you need to retrieve more weather data than can easily be fetched via simple browser query. If you need thousands of rows of results, many locations, …
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The weather forecast widget displays up to a 15-day weather forecast in a horizontal, scrollable layout. The forecast widget uses data from the Weather API along with HTML, Javascript and CSS technologies to create the widget. Source code Full source code for the widget can be found on our Github. Technologies – Weather API, HTML, …
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