Data

jinsngjung / Pixabay Today is 2nd January and the days are getting longer again. I was thinking about sunrise and sunset times and wondering if I should do some data analysis and plotting of these to visualize how they change over the course of a year. Of course, the first step is to get a suitable data set. You can get a data set of sunrise and sunset times from this page on the US Naval Observatory (USNO) website. Sunrise and sunset times depend on your specific location on the globe so you have to specify the location for your data set. Using the “Form B” Locations Worldwide" section on the page it is possible to enter precise coordinates for any location in terms of latitude and longitude. You can also do it for a timezone, but this is very broad and not precise enough for my liking. ...

UPDATE: These days it is recommended to use Python3 instead of Python2 Apparently it is tricky to get Python integration working in the KNIME Analytics Platform. If you read the official guide too quickly you can miss some critical information at the bottom of the page. I was getting an error complaining that the google.protobuf library was missing even though I thought that I had everything installed correctly: Library google.protobuf is missing, required minimum version is 2.5.0 ...