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    What neighborhood in SF has the best weather?

    What dimensions do we care about?

    • Low crime and homelessness (crime reports).
    • Beautiful views (elevation).
    • Location.
    • Backyards, ideally connectable.
    • Square footage of houses: 3k-8k.
    • Number of bedrooms in the house: ideally, 2-6.
    • High turnover.
    • Nice weather. Twin Peaks
    • Quiet/low traffic/culdesacs. It's surprisingly great to be on a quiet street with less traffic. Feels safer for kids, too.

    Weather data

    1:36 PM: looking for weather data. What data source shows 4 months of fog in Twin Peaks?

    Wunderground has a lot of bugs, and you need to own a station to have an API key. Unlikely that I'd be able to get their historical data with their API.

    Also, a bug in showing historical data means that no matter what station you put in, it always shows weather data from KSFO (SFO). See https://www.wunderground.com/history/weekly/us/ca/san-francisco/KSFO/date/2020-10-12 and https://www.wunderground.com/history/weekly/us/ca/san-francisco/KCASANFR1217/date/2020-10-12. Note the different location IDs, different coordinate locations, but same data.

    Accuweather API is limited to forecast information and current conditions. https://developer.accuweather.com/packages

    weather.gov has monthly stats for the whole city: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=mtr

    Zip codes.
    Zip codes.

    The only data for ncei.noaa.gov is at the locations in the below map. All of the below sources are built on this national data:

    https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/global-surface-summary-of-the-day-gsod

    https://www.almanac.com/weather/history/zipcode/94131/2021-10-11

    https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/past-weather-zip-code-data-table

    https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/san-francisco/california/united-states/usca0987

    No detailed data within SF.
    No detailed data within SF.

    Data looks like this:

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    https://www.forecastadvisor.com/California/SanFrancisco/94131/

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    This API looks promising: https://www.aerisweather.com/support/docs/toolkits/

    Would rather find a data dump, though.

    https://weather.com/weather/monthly/l/3b921f00bcf37f7b9e5d0fc6691162840e3f125024f48f2b9bc2f7521138d6a3

    This dump isn't zipcode granularity - just city level. Bah.

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    Instantaneous estimates might be the best we can do:

    https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap

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    This doesn't even seem that accurate, though.

    Really excellent visualizations that allow for at-a-glance comparisons across the world, using the NCEI data from above:

    https://weatherspark.com/map

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    NYC property sales dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/new-york-city/nyc-property-sales

    Zillow countrywide Zestimate data, up to 2017 (?): https://www.kaggle.com/zillow/rent-index

    532 other real estate datasets: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets?tags=11122-Real+Estate