Universal Weather - Compare Alaska weather to Mars

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Problem statement

Your goal is to build a Proof Of Concept app that will collect weather data for Mars and Fairbanks, Alaska. The app should be able to do the following:

1. run from the CLI,
2. ingest both sources of data into a database, and
3. export the data out of that database in a structured format that shows the daily max and min temperature for Mars and Fairbanks Alaska for the last 7 days.

For example, if you chose to export the data in JSON, it could look like this (not real data):

[
  {
    "date":  "2020-01-01",
    "min_mars_temp":  -10,
    "max_mars_temp":  -1,
    "min_fairbanks_temp":   12,
    "max_fairbanks_temp":  17
  },
  {
    "date":  "2020-01-02",
    "min_mars_temp":  -17,
    "max_mars_temp":  -11,
    "min_fairbanks_temp":   14,
    "max_fairbanks_temp":  21
  }
]

Data sources

Mars

NASA’s Mars Insight Mission provides daily temperature readings from the surface of Mars.

• The data can be accessed via API here: https://api.nasa.gov/
• Look at the documentation for InSight: Mars Weather Service API.
  • Api_key = 1SVv7ZFZhGafR3BT4Q7ClcjhWmhp9DGt49ALovOL

Fairbanks, Alaska

A snapshot of last 90+ days of data recordings have been provided in a file in this repo: fairbanks data.csv

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Setup:

A simple docker-compose is provided for you in this repo that includes postgres. If you're not familiar with docker compose, here are a few quick commands to get you started

• docker-compose up -d - brings up the docker-compose environment and services (just postgres)
• docker-compose ps - list of running services

Once the compose file is running, you should be able to connect locally. The postgres user password is

• Dev note: In certain Mac OS version, when you try to install the psycopg2 module, it doesn't automatically install psycopg-binary module, which is apparently required now.