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A New Stats Page is Born!

Synopsis: we are archiving the city’s climate and presenting it to the community in what we believe is an accessible and easy-to-read format.

Perhaps you’ve visited the Statistics page previously. WeatherCat, the software that grabs data from the weather station, automatically generated those numbers and even uploaded them to the website.

Well, the old saying “if it’s easy, it ain’t worth doing” proved true, unfortunately. As time went on, I kept spotting more mathematical errors. Plus, the tables were not very readable. Visitors couldn’t access daily history after 60 days. Navigating the page was difficult too.

Over a month ago I began overhauling the page. This involved taking raw data directly from the database and programming  complex mathematical formulas. Smoke may have occasionally emanated from the computer (not to mention my ears!). Continue reading “A New Stats Page is Born!”

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