Ben Tesch, one of several great web designers and developers just across the lake at MSNBC.com, is about to launch Cumul.us, a site which will aggregate weather data and use crowdsourcing to try to make better weather predictions than the experts. Who knows if it’ll work, but it sounds like a killer idea to me, and I can’t wait to see it in action.
001 // gb // 10.26.2007 // 1:11 PM
This looks sweet. And I just realised I had lunch with Ben at MSNBC a few months back. Small world.
002 // Matt Robin // 10.27.2007 // 7:37 AM
For someone like me who actually studied Meteorology - this is certainly an intriguing idea. It does seem a bit naive though when put in to the context that the UK Met Office currently uses CRAY Supercomputers (some of the most powerful computers on the planet) tasked to run weather climate simulations…just to predict the weather! The math involved behind such predictions is staggering!
It’ll be interesting to see the sort of accuracy that can be produced with this alternative method…..and it’s a nice idea.
I like the social aspect of Ben’s idea (the ‘what to wear’ sort of thing). I agree Jeff: An API would be cool too. :)
003 // Michiel // 10.30.2007 // 3:56 AM
Cool idea! Wrong url by the way, should be http://www.cumul.us/ i guess.