What you missed in Big Data: Predicting the weather with machine learning

Thanks to modern analytics technology, weather forecasts are becoming more useful than ever before. Much of the credit goes to IBM Corp. and the researchers at its budding meteorology business. The vendor last week unveiled a service called Deep Thunder that uses machine learning to help companies optimize operations based on short-term changes in temperature and rainfall. The potential applications are numerous. A power company could use the system to identify which parts of its infrastructure are most susceptible to water damage and spread out field technicians accordingly.