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Create a Weather Dashboard Using Wunderground and AWS Lambda

Learn how to use AWS Lambda to build a connector between Weather Underground and Initial State. The user will learn how to setup AWS Lambda to automatically pull weather conditions from Weather Underground then push that data into an Initial State dashboard in real-time.

Update the Real Time Dashboard with Google Sheets

People have been using spreadsheets to hold and understand data for years. Once that data grows to hundreds or thousands of cells it can be hard to grasp quickly and easily. Now, using a custom script in Google Sheets, Initial State is able to turn cells of hard-to-read data into beautiful visualizations in Initial State. This is so easy, the user is going to wonder why you have not done this before.

Track the International Space Station

Who does not love space? Seriously. Especially when living in a glorious day and age of public space data. Thanks to NASA and Open Notify, Inititial State can access data about where the International Space Station is right now using AWS Lambda or a single-board computer.

PubNub Integration with Initial State

PubNub is a service that specializes in low-latency messaging across any device or platform anywhere. PubNub operates using "channels" on which a device can publish messages and subscribe to messages. But what if the user wants to visualize message rate trends? That is where Initial State comes in - real-time dashboards to visualize data flowing through PubNub channels.