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Weather
What Cleveland's winter did to a local toy store
by
Kai Ryssdal
Jul 10, 2014
The hard winter doesn't skip toy stores. Now, it's bouncing back.
What do meteorologists think about climate change?
by
Dan Bobkoff
May 6, 2014
Many Americans get their weather and climate information from TV weather casters.
How El Niño will impact global food prices
Mar 12, 2014
It probably won't have a huge impact on your grocery bills.
The costs behind winter blues
Feb 28, 2014
Snow, rain, wind, and ice are across the U.S. this year in one of the more dreadful winters on record. With unexpected weather comes unexpected costs.
Winter economic slowdown? Not for Campbell's soup
Feb 17, 2014
Winter weather is mostly a drag on the economy, but a few businesses love it
The economics of a bad winter
Feb 17, 2014
A business opportunity for firms that make de-icer with everything from the remnants of rum to beet juice.
For public good, not for profit.
What seasonally adjusted data does and doesn't mean
by
Adriene Hill
Feb 13, 2014
Retail numbers out today don’t look great, sales fell by 0.4 percent in January— when you take into account “seasonal adjustment”.
Two new applications for big data
by
Molly Wood
Sep 2, 2013
Leveraging massive amounts of computing power to predict weather and explore the galaxy.
IBM uses big data to get smarter on energy
by
Molly Wood
Aug 15, 2013
How the company translates tidal waves of real time data to make renewable energy plants more efficient by predicting the weather.