Wednesday, January 9, 2013

A Data Mining Project (day 5)


So a bit of progress...
Now sending the data to http://mis.ucd.ie/weather whenever Windows on the VMWare environment on my Mac is running. The default settings, no customisation as illustrated below.


I don't think Cumulus provides an authoritative log file but it looks like the current month file and the month archive files are in csv format. I've copied an example of the current month-to-date to
http://mis.ucd.ie/weather/logs/Jan13log.txt

Some things for the to-do list:
  1. Migrate the working installation to an 'aways on PC'.
  2. Consider exporting data to the weather collectives like: Wunderground, NOAA, PWS Weather, Weatherbug, WOW, APRS/CWOP
  3. Import data into my local database.
  4. Import data from other PWS's into my local database.
  5. and perhaps combine with data from energy meters?
  6. I have a wireless energy meter monitoring home electricity usage, it has an RJ45 connector, it could be another data source... (link), oh and for a very basic (and empty) idea of what an energy dashboard looks like have a look at the CurrentCost demo page (link).

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