Utah, the greatest SMOG on earth. Harvesting data for air quality prediction. Presentation walks through simple data sources, data sources that required javascript packet gathering and scraping. Finally data sources that require reverse map to data conversions.

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Greatest snow on earth
SMOG
Finding data sources

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Intel/Micron/Quant/HireVue
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? Take a look and get inspired

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Weather
Physical
Cultural
Traffic
Social
Health
Industry
Political
Other
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Data Categories

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Searching for
data
can get messy
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Vertical Sounding http://weather.uwyo.edu/
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Cultural / Physical
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/
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All roads
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All roads
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All roads
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All roads* density
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All roads* length

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All roads* major
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14. River Distance*
Source: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/
Calculate shortest distance
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No API? No problem!

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Weather station data (demo)
http://mesowest.utah.edu/
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Weather station data (demo)
http://mesowest.utah.edu/
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Weather station data (demo)
http://mesowest.utah.edu/
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Weather station data (demo)
http://mesowest.utah.edu/
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Weather station data (demo)
http://mesowest.utah.edu/
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http://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-
bin/droman/mm_get_monitor_data.pl?state=UT&rawsflag=290&type=&orderby=n&day1=&month1=&year1=&time1=&time
obs=1&unit=&tzoffset=360&lat=39.78321267821705&lon=-
111.73095703125&radius=&product=&availoffset=3&checked=0&past=0&display=js

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Weather station data (demo)
http://mesowest.utah.edu/
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Proper Interpolation methods
Spatial interpolation (region “state”)
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Nearest neighbor
Bicubic
Bootstrap EWMA
Physical Model

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25. Unlocking closed source data
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26. Annual wind data example
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Coordinate system? Colors?
Known lat/long + values
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27. Import nearest colormatch
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28. Removes state lines/text

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31. Sanity Check
Original Map Transformed Map
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Satellite Feed
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/
http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/west/wfo/slc.html
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Feedback/connect
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