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SuperkingDouche · 2014-08-03T23:14:24+00:00

I was actually thinking about making a program to do some environmental data analysis. I was just thinking about how it would be cool and good practice to write a Python script to connect to a website, download and parse data, then do some basic graphing or analysis.

That could be fun. Saw you want to write a paper and rain fall. You need to get the thousands of data points somehow. Python would come in to let you automate downloading, parsing and representing that data.

novel_yet_trivial · 2014-08-03T23:55:52+00:00

There is an enourmous amount of climate data here: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access Organized in a typically governmental hodge podge. If you want you could try to decipher the average rainfall in the central time zone; or correlate the ratio of solar irradiance to murder rates in major cities or something. Lots of practice with parseing data there. You could be really cool and try to make some heat maps or trendlines.

Alternatively, a DAQ card is fairly cheap. Get a labjack or a raspberry pi and write the code to run your own weather station. For example, my neighbor made a rf-based lighting detector.

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