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One groundhog won't be reporting in - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fred-la-marmotte-die...
The organizers claimed they had a replacement lined up for today, but blame an unnamed state statue for not actually being able to use them: https://www.nj.com/news/2023/01/groundhog-day-to-be-without-...
Also how often did their right or wrong predictions contradict the majority?
Made my own map: brew install datasette sqlite-utils curl 'https://groundhog-day.com/api/v1/predictions?year=2023' | \ jq .predictions | \ sqlite-utils insert day.db groundhogs - --flatten sqlite-utils convert day.db groundhogs \ groundhog_coordinates --multi 'return { "latitude": value.split(",")[0], "longitude": value.split(",")[1] }' datasette install datasette-cluster-map datasette day.db Screenshot of the map he…
There is an API for this extremely useful data?
I'm going to need to see success rating for each groundhog. How often do they correctly predict the weather? Also how often did their right or wrong predictions contradict the majority?
I mentioned this in another comment, but accuracy data is basically impossible to get. You have to get weather data year by year for different regions of the country and then compare them to historical ranges. Means a pretty huge amount of trawling through data, not a lot of payoff.
> Also how often did their right or wrong predictions contradict the majority?
This one, you can get a little more easily. Check out the predictions page to see them grouped by year: https://groundhog-day.com/predictions
If you are looking up a specific groundhog, you can see how often they align/differ from the plurality.
Well well well, that is what I call a service. There is an API for this extremely useful data?
This is great, but I wish I could filter out all the plush animals.
On the other hand, there is an API as well, so you can build a custom groundhog dashboard if you like.
One groundhog won't be reporting in - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fred-la-marmotte-die...
This happened last year in NJ: https://www.nj.com/news/2022/01/njs-weather-predicting-groun... The organizers claimed they had a replacement lined up for today, but blame an unnamed state statue for not actually being able to use them: https://www.nj.com/news/2023/01/groundhog-day-to-be-without-...