Climate-Plotter

Climate Plotter is a unique python-driven search engine solely focused on pulling and plotting climate data. https://climate-plotter.herokuapp.com/

Description

This app helps anyone interested in understanding climatic stats of a given city over the months in a year. This project also allows users to compare weather trends for two cities. It displays information through a plotted graph. With data for over 4000 cities, this tool covers an extensive database.

Getting Started

This is a Flask application that runs on the Heroku platform.

• In the root directory, wsgi.py, runtime.txt, requirements.txt, nltk.txt, Procfile are all the files required for the deployment of this Flask app.
• Within the app directory, main.py is the Flask runner application
  • all the front-end files(HTML, CSS and JS files) accessed by main.py are stored within the folder named static. The main html files are stored under the templates directory.
  • all files generated during the course of execution of the program are stored in the career_files folder and the templates folder.
  • this flask app runs Climate_Runner_App.py that runs the main part of the program like collecting climate data and generating a climate plot for a city(or two cities)
• Climate_Runner_App.py contains the main algorithm for plotting the climate data.

Running the Code

To run this application from your local machine, navigate to the root directory and run this from the command line

python wsgi.py

Copy and paste the link displayed onto your browser. The Climate-Plotter is up and running!

Usage

Click 'Get a Climate Plot!' and enter a sentence containing a city(or two) and a climate statistic and hit enter!