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Millions Of Weather Records Pose Big Data Challenge For Scientists

Rose Eveleth | Nextgov.com | August 26, 2014

...The International Environmental Data Rescue Organization (IEDRO) estimates that there are 100 million paper strip charts—records that list weather conditions—sitting in meteorological storage facilities throughout the world. That’s about 200 million observations unused by scientists, data that could greatly improve their models...

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