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  "title": "Plot of the day",
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  "post_date": "2013-09-02T09:47:31.467Z",
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  "content": "<p>Here's a nice plot showing the correlated Mesonet stations - connected if correlation &gt; 0.95. Color of the nodes are the elevation of the station.</p>\n<p>Neat! :)</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://www.kaggle.com/files/9062/elevation_plot.png\" alt></p>",
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      "postDate": "09/02/2013 09:47:31",
      "content": "<p>Here's a nice plot showing the correlated Mesonet stations - connected if correlation &gt; 0.95. Color of the nodes are the elevation of the station.</p>\n<p>Neat! :)</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://www.kaggle.com/files/9062/elevation_plot.png\" alt></p>",
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      "postDate": "09/04/2013 02:34:39",
      "content": "<p>Ivo - that is a cool plot! &nbsp;If there was a visualization contest I would nominate you for the prize!</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Can you share the code you used to make that? &nbsp;I'd love to get a little better at making visuals.</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/05/2013 09:52:13",
      "content": "<p>Gladly. You need <a href=\"http://www.python.org/\">python</a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http://matplotlib.org/\">matplotlib</a>, <a href=\"http://pandas.pydata.org/\">pandas</a> and <a href=\"http://networkx.github.io/\">networkx</a> to make it work. Run it in <a href=\"https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/\">spyder</a>.</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/05/2013 10:15:15",
      "content": "<p>Mesonet stations closer to the sun seems to produce more energy.<img src=\"http://www.kaggle.com/files/9079/elev_vs_total_output.png\" alt width=\"796\" height=\"380\"></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "30218",
      "postDate": "09/05/2013 10:20:39",
      "content": "<p>How to get elevation from this dataset?</p>",
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      "id": "30220",
      "postDate": "09/05/2013 10:57:57",
      "content": "<p>Take a look in the station_info.csv</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/05/2013 22:10:27",
      "content": "<p>[quote=ivo;30217]</p>\n<p>Mesonet stations closer to the sun seems to produce more energy.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;[/quote]</p>\n<p>That's an important finding. And most of the stations are below 600m! They should have built them further west. It's evident from the first plot that the terrain is way more elevated there.</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/08/2013 21:37:36",
      "content": "<p>Ever wondered how those 12, 15, 18, 21 and 24 hour NWP interpolations look like? There is a heatmap for each feature in the <a href=\"https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-8B_o2yEkBINFk2MnhWcW1yU2c/edit?usp=sharing\">ZIP file</a>.</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://www.kaggle.com/files/9092/uswrf_sfc_2010070400.png\" alt></p>",
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      "author_name": "bensolucky",
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      "post_date": "09/04/2013 02:34:39",
      "content": "<p>Ivo - that is a cool plot! &nbsp;If there was a visualization contest I would nominate you for the prize!</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Can you share the code you used to make that? &nbsp;I'd love to get a little better at making visuals.</p>",
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      "author_name": "iamivo",
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      "post_date": "09/05/2013 09:52:13",
      "content": "<p>Gladly. You need <a href=\"http://www.python.org/\">python</a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http://matplotlib.org/\">matplotlib</a>, <a href=\"http://pandas.pydata.org/\">pandas</a> and <a href=\"http://networkx.github.io/\">networkx</a> to make it work. Run it in <a href=\"https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/\">spyder</a>.</p>",
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      "author_name": "iamivo",
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      "post_date": "09/05/2013 10:15:15",
      "content": "<p>Mesonet stations closer to the sun seems to produce more energy.<img src=\"http://www.kaggle.com/files/9079/elev_vs_total_output.png\" alt width=\"796\" height=\"380\"></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": 30218,
      "author_name": "herimanitra",
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      "post_date": "09/05/2013 10:20:39",
      "content": "<p>How to get elevation from this dataset?</p>",
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      "id": 30220,
      "author_name": "iamivo",
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      "post_date": "09/05/2013 10:57:57",
      "content": "<p>Take a look in the station_info.csv</p>",
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      "author_name": "zygmunt",
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      "post_date": "09/05/2013 22:10:27",
      "content": "<p>[quote=ivo;30217]</p>\n<p>Mesonet stations closer to the sun seems to produce more energy.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;[/quote]</p>\n<p>That's an important finding. And most of the stations are below 600m! They should have built them further west. It's evident from the first plot that the terrain is way more elevated there.</p>",
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      "post_date": "09/08/2013 21:37:36",
      "content": "<p>Ever wondered how those 12, 15, 18, 21 and 24 hour NWP interpolations look like? There is a heatmap for each feature in the <a href=\"https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-8B_o2yEkBINFk2MnhWcW1yU2c/edit?usp=sharing\">ZIP file</a>.</p>\n<p><img src=\"http://www.kaggle.com/files/9092/uswrf_sfc_2010070400.png\" alt></p>",
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