PyCon 2015 Lightning Talk Predict Weather with PyBrain
Channel: Hobson Lane
Date: 2015-04-14

Quick look at using PyBrain and a helper package called `pug-ann`  to create a 6-node, single-layer, linear feed forward neural net that can predict the maximum daily max temperature in Portland Oregon to +/-5 deg C accuracy (1-sigma). The helper functions will retrieve (and cache) a DataFrame of historical weather and then turn that DataFrame into a pybrain.DataSet and pybrain.FeedForwardNetwork based on your selection of input and output column labels. This makes it easy to try a variety of models and "auto-tune" them to improve performance.