This repository serves two functions:

1. Gather Temperature data for US cities
2. Plot Average Temperatures of each US state on a Choropleth Diagram

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This module (located under Get_Weather_Data) requests weather data from the national weather service for each US city. Weather data (such as temperature, forecasts, and change of precipitation) and location data (such as location coordinates, and states) are recorded in a data txt file.

Since parsing weather data for all US cities is relatively slow, past forecast data is recorded in the data txt file.

To parse current weather data, ensure the following requirements are met.

This module analyzes parsed weather data by creating a dictionary of states to reported temperatures. Temperatures are then averaged for each state and then plotted using plotly's chorpleth api.

To analyze and plot parsed weather data, ensure the requirements below are met.

1. Python 2.X

   • Python 2.7 recommended

       sudo apt-get install python
     

2. ConfigParser

   • Used to Read API Key information

        pip install ConfigParser
     

4. requests

   • Used to Parse Weather Data from National Weather Service

        pip install requests
     

5. bs4

   • Used to Parse forecast data in XML format

      pip install bs4
     

6. lxml

   • XML parser used by bs4

      pip install lxml
     

1. plotly

   • Library used to form a state temperature choropleth

      pip install plotly