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Learn the skills! We're not meteorologists, and we're not even fancy-pants computer science academic types. We just got sick of this app not existing... So we

Learn the skills! We're not meteorologists, and we're not even fancy-pants computer science academic types. We just got sick of this app not existing... So we hunkered down and learned about Computer Vision and experimented a whole lot (which resulted in another fun project: http://tinyfaceapp.com http://tinyfaceapp.com). There are so many awesome open-source data-processing libraries out there, which when combined with cloud-based computing, gives individuals so much tremendous power to pursue their weird passions.

davidw 15y ago
I played around with OpenCV and the data a while ago, but in the end decided that for the time being it's probably not worth it. 1) I only have data for the Veneto, which is not that big 2) the data can be intermittent - if people start relying on you, and your data dries up for a few hours, they're going to be pissed off 3) storm prediction algorithms are much more complicated than just tracking the image. I looked up a bit of the literature on it, and... "it's complicated" if you want to really try for accuracy.