Using Weather Data in Business Intelligence – Part 1
How to find weather data that works well with business intelligence analysis
In this series of three articles we will first discuss how to find weather data that is compatible with both your existing business data and your existing business intelligence systems. Then, in part two we will discuss strategies to analyze historical weather data in conjunction with your BI tools and with your data. Finally, part three will discuss how to apply the insights learned from the historical analysis to make more intelligent decisions using business patterns and weather forecast data.
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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Visual Crossing Weather Packaged Options
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 …
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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Five Easy Weather API calls to Get The Weather Data You Need
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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How to add historical weather data to Qlik Sense
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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How to load weather forecast data into Qlik Sense?
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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How to look up the current weather conditions in the Weather API
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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How can I load historical weather data using Google Apps Script?
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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