Mark Litwintschik 5/26/2026

1.75B Airport Weather Observations

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This article analyzes the Global Airport Observations dataset, a 1.75B-record Parquet-formatted collection of weather observations from 1940 to present, hosted on Cloudflare. The author details their high-performance workstation (AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB RAM) and walks through installing prerequisites like jq and DuckDB with extensions (H3, JSON, Parquet, Spatial). They then import 2024 data into DuckDB, rename columns for clarity, and use QGIS for map rendering. The post is a technical tutorial focused on data engineering, big data processing, and geospatial analysis, clearly related to IT/technology.

1.75B Airport Weather Observations

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