Visual Crossing provides weather data and a weather API for historical and forecast weather data, including specialty measures like solar radiation.

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Visual Crossing | 365 followers on LinkedIn. Visual Crossing is a leading provider of weather data and enterprise analysis tools for data science &amp; business needs. | Visual Crossing is a leading provider of weather data and enterprise analysis tools to data scientists, business analysts, professionals, and academics. Founded in 2003, our mission has always been to empower data consumers and analysts to make better decisions based on high-quality, easy-to-access data. For nearly 20 years Visual Crossing has been providing enterprise-class solutions to some of the largest businesses in the world.

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Weather affects all aspects of our lives, including candy demand on Halloween. Grab a Snickers or a handful of candy corn and read Daniel Lopez's latest analysis using weather data to uncover insights related to Halloween candy demand. Combining trick-or-treat patterns for recent decades with Visual Crossing Weather data and Tableau visualizations, he shows that all data tastes better when mixed with high quality weather data… and a few snack sized Hershey’s chocolate bars.

Weather data proves valuable for researchers working to help wildlife survive in a human-centric world. Visual Crossing Weather data is helping researchers in Greece to better understand the patterns of interactions between brown bears and automobiles resulting in accidents. It is hoped that this research will lead to improved safety for both the bears and the humans behind the wheels. If your research project needs weather data, reach out, and we’ll be happy to also help you get the data that you need. https://lnkd.in/dvMtvRJ3

Congratulations to Ayyoub Abdel-Aziz and Robyn Manahan for their internship project using historical weather data and neural network models to predict urban energy usage and facilitate resiliency planning. We always enjoy reading and learning about how people use our weather data. If you have a great weather data project, we’d love to hear about it. If you need help getting data access, please reach out to us. https://lnkd.in/dFxGbMTJ

Weather data provides valuable insights into real-world energy challenges. This excellent article uses neural networks trained on energy usage, weather conditions, and other grid data to forecast energy consumption in New York. It provides an important contribution in the effort toward managing our sustainable energy future. It is in everyone’s interest to reduce the environmental impact of our energy as well as making it more reliable and equitable. Thanks to Tyler and his team for trusting Visual Crossing weather data in their analysis. https://lnkd.in/dUk-2gg9

It is easy to use weather data in your microcontroller-based application One exciting but often overlooked application for weather data is in IoT and embedded systems applications. If you write code or manage projects using microcontrollers such as Arduino, STM32, or ESP32, you can easily add weather data to improve the capability and usability of your project. Thanks to future engineers Hela Ben Abdelhafidh and Mohamed Yassine Ben Salah for using our weather API in their interesting university project.

How weather data will add value to your next chatbot project. With the advent of improved AI, powerful and useful chatbots are now within the reach of every organization. Whether you’ve had a chatbot for years or are now building your first, adding weather insights can easily improve the value of your chatbot to your users. This article shows how to use weather data within various popular frameworks such as the Microsoft Bot Framework, Google’s Dialogflow, and Rasa. https://lnkd.in/d-2ArGeF

How to correlate weather and business data for improved retail performance If you want to get added value out of your existing business data, it is hard to beat the return on investment that you can get by adding weather data to your analysis. Using weather data to find patterns in sales and customer activity will lead to improved sales, profit, and business optimizations. This article, written for and by a Snowflake engineer, should be interesting to every data manager who wants to improve the value of their key business data assets.

Flash flooding can pose risks for both businesses and your personal plans. Learn more about what causes flash floods, the ways in which they can pose risk, and how you can better manage that risk. High quality weather data plays an important role in helping plan for whatever Mother Nature sends your way. Knowing when conditions are right for flooding empowers you to make plans and take action to protect yourself, your employees, and your business. https://lnkd.in/dNH9BbXJ

Weather data brings additional insight to many data science projects. We are always proud when academics and researchers use our weather data to add insight to their projects. If you are an academic who needs weather data for your research, we’ll be glad to give you free access to our industry-leading weather data API. We do this as a way to give back to the legions of students, researchers, and scientists over centuries who have made modern weather and atmospheric science possible. Without them, we would still be looking up at the sky and trying to guess how the cloud patterns relate to the wrath of the gods. If you need weather data for your project, just reach out to us.

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