I wish Alteryx had an Alteryx gallery not only for workflows but for pure data sources as well which we can access with;
- freemium license for certain aspects
- a specific monthly fee or
- a prepaid model...
And I would like to be able to get weather data as a starter;
- historical temperature data is one thing and can be found over the internet so this part may be the freemium one...
But especially the most needed aspects are;
- cloud cover
- relative humidity
- average precipitation rate
- barometric pressure
- wind chill temperature
- wind direction in degrees
- wind gust speed
Obviously 5 day 3 hour forecasts for all these aspects are another thing and probably this will generate some revenue...
This information is so essential in order to accurately forecast
- credit risk in agricultural lending to
- planning electricity loads and pricing...
Mathematica (since version 7) and wolfram has this built in already!
https://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/newin7/content/CurrentAndHistoricalWeatherData/
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/symbol.html?symbol=WeatherData
This is the source of data; http://reference.wolfram.com/language/note/WeatherDataSourceInformation.html
Totally agree that maintaining a data source covering worldwide is not an easy task but I think will help Alteryx users and customers a lot...
