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We are Wet Dog Weather, a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that specializes in enterprise-level solutions for weather & sensor data dissemination and visualization.
What Happens When Interns Build AI-Generated Dashboards?
Three weeks into their summer internship, our AI interns are off to a strong start. Their first assignment was to build AI-generated dashboards for air quality, giving them a chance to explore LLMs before beginning their larger summer projects. The results highlight both the promise of AI-assisted development and the importance of understanding the data behind the dashboard.
Designing for Different Users
Previous Posts Week 2: Organization Improves AI Results Week 1: The Importance of Staying Organized GoalThis week marks the first week of the summer-long project. For the first 2 weeks of this internship, I became familiar with making a dashboard using WDW products....
Balancing Speed and Accuracy
Previous Posts Week 2: Functionality Before Features Week 1: Design Before Development GoalThis week, I wanted to start developing an independent project and explore Terrier’s capabilities. My first idea connects back to my interest in birding and...
Designing Around User Needs
Previous Posts Week 2: Seeking Advice Leads to Success Week 1: Staying Productive Through Roadblocks Goal Save my Smoke and AQI dashboard project appropriately and upload it to GitHub. Map out a tentative design for my Fishing app project (visuals, data variables…)...
Turning Data Into Decisions
Previous Posts Week 2: Making Data Actionable Week 1: Building Knowledge Before Making Changes GoalResearch and design a professional storm chasing dashboard using Wet Dog Weather products and Terrier data. The goal was to identify which data is available through...
How Hurricanes Form and Why 2026 Could Be Different
Hurricanes are often described by their impacts, but their formation depends on a delicate balance of atmospheric ingredients. In this article, we explore how hurricanes form, from warm ocean water and low-pressure disturbances to the eye and eyewall of a mature storm. We also examine why El Niño may suppress activity during the 2026 hurricane season and why even a quieter season can still produce significant impacts.
Functionality Before Features
Previous Posts Week 1: Design Before Development GoalI want to create a new visualization dashboard that benefits a new demographic by uniquely presenting the data while exploring new AI tools.WorkflowFor this week, I decided to first look at Claude by Anthropic's...
Seeking Advice Leads to Success
Previous Posts Week 1: Staying Productive Through Roadblocks Goal Understand why I couldn't work with TerrierWeb last week Create a new prompt in ChatGPT to feed into Claude for an overall project design Get a map working from a server on my computer Plot both AQI and...
Organization Improves AI Results
Previous Posts Week 1: The Importance of Staying Organized Goal Brainstorm and design UI concept images using AI tools such as Claude Design, ChatGPT images, or other specific AI tools. Begin implementing the desired UI and continue refining it with Claude Code and,...
Have a project in mind?
We are a Software as a Service company, and we charge accordingly. Our customers rent their own Boxer stack and gain access to our Terrier front-end libraries. We process a variety of standard data sets, which is…. standard. But we also process custom data you may buy or generate yourself. That’s where things get interesting
