*DataPoint* Dancing on the Edge




Data Driven show

Summary: A few years ago, Andy collected local weather data from his farm near Farmville Virginia and posted it online.<br> <br> Why? To see if he could. Even though the old weather station ceased working years ago, he still uses the data in SSIS training courses he delivers.<br> <br> It was time for a new weather station, so Andy picked up this Acurite model. He plans to use it to conduct data science and data engineering experiments. Why? To see if he could.<br> <br> To get things started, Andy set up the Acurite software to append readings to a CSV file every 12 minutes. He then grabbed a copy of the AzCopy command-line utility Andy decided to run the Acurite software and AzCopy on a very old Windows 7 machine (with only 2GB RAM). Why? To see if he could.<br> <br> It works.<br> <br> Andy built a command line for AzCopy that performs a data transfer from the old Win7 machine to Azure Blob Storage. He then used Task Scheduler to fire the command line every 15 minutes... and you already know why.<br> <br> :{&gt;