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At Visual Crossing, we are proud to be a trusted source of weather data to the academic and research communities. To help support students and members of the research community obtain accurate weather information, we offer special discount pricing of 90% off any of our monthly plans for individuals who need historical weather data and …
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As Ruby is a key language used to build web applications and an important language for data analysis, it is natural that Ruby developers would want to load weather data into their applications. Luckily, Ruby’s built-in functions make it easy to compose and execute web queries and also easy parse the JSON results into objects …
The queryCost parameter can be found in the response of the Timeline Weather API. QueryCost is used to indicate how many result rows the query counts as towards your metered billing or any daily or monthly query cost limit that may apply to the plan being used. Examples of the queryCost parameter Weather Forecast Request …
The Microsoft Excel WEBSERVICE function retrieves data from a URL into a single cell within an Excel worksheet. In this article we describe how to use WEBSERVICE to retrieve weather forecast and historical weather data directly into Excel without the need for macros or scripts. However, is it always the best way to work with …
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Visual Crossing is a superior replacement for the OpenWeatherMap API (also known as the OpenWeather API) in both cost and functionality. By offering up to 1000 free results a day and full access to forecast historical data, Visual Crossing Weather makes it easy for everyone to test the API, compare data, evaluate extended weather functionality, …
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If you are creating a web page that needs to display weather data using client side code such as JavaScript, you may find that your browser blocks the request to the Weather API. Today we discuss how the Timeline Weather API makes solving this easy and painless. How? Because the API supports reading the weather …
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When you want to drive data analysis of all types including data science and business intelligence applications, loading weather data into a relational databased is often the first step. As one of the most popular database platforms in the world, Microsoft SQL Server is the backend datastore for millions of applications from homebrew to enterprise. …
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This article provides a step-by-step guide to replacing the Weather Underground API with the Visual Crossing Timeline Weather API. The Timeline Weather API offers a generous free daily API limit and a simple JSON response that is easily used in any existing application or script. This makes the Timeline API, the perfect replacement for the …
If you are a keen campers or RV-ers like our family, you are looking forward to a summer of exploration. Exploring beaches, cities and mountains around the country is what makes camping and RV-ing such as wonderful experience. However camping is inherently weather-based. Extremely hot or cold weather or strong storms, hurricanes (and blizzards if …
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When you have a large weather query, it is typically a good idea to segment it into multiple, smaller queries and then execute those separate individually. This is important for more consistent timing performance inside your application, debugging, and timeout avoidance among under reasons. In this article, we will discuss when it makes sense to …
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