31 May 2010
Showcases
Installation, Urban, Weather
Wather Tower is an urban installation from the belgian Design Agency Lab[au]. It forecasts tomorrow's temperature, cloudiness, precipitations, and wind, by using colors and geometrical patterns to visualize/transcribe real-time data provided by the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium.
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15 Apr 2009
Datasets, Notes
API, Weather
John Musser from ProgrammableWeb.com has put together a superb list of APIs that allow a developer or programming-savvy designer to retrieve weather data and use it in his visualization projects. Of course the scope isn't limited on visualization but if your anything like me you already got some ideas on how to mash-up the available data to display correlations between weather information and other data.
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