Any computer programmers/anayltics guys out there?

[miurajus]

Not to deviate from the horrible treatment of farmers but it got me to thinking about some of the things I've learned while browsing the forums.  ATM, I can only find one website which provided historical data pertaining to rainfall.  Is there anyone out there who could suggest an approach towards finding a correlation to rainfall patterns w/ regards to the suggested "best production" years?  Could be a case of too big of a mountain, but I was just curious because I'm sure on some biochemical level, the amount of oil present has a correlation to the intake/processing of rain/water.  In my reading there seemed to be a general consensus on solid years (here on the forums).. we have that variable, we have the data, we would just need an algorithm to sort the weather data and make it fit to our result.   Oh and a programmer to put it into a manageable format.

"Easier said than done."  Sorry, I don't know how to do either!

Maybe drier years allow for earlier smokes across varying marcas, and wetter years, a longer nap on avg, more aging potential due to an increase in oil present (I see piggy coming to remind me about the crap shoot that is aging potential - I hear you bro!)..  Might be complex, or maybe someone might have a, "eureka" with little to no effort.  Just throwing it out there!! 

[Phatskipper]

I think what you need is some statistical analysis software and the bulk data sets you want to look at.  In the economics class I took while studying for my MBA, we used a software package that allowed us to compare data sets and look for relationships between the data by adjusting a formula.   I don't remember what the name of the software was.. but i am sure there are a bunch of options.

In the project I worked on, the real difficulty was finding the data sets I needed to do the analysis.  I wonder how well records were kept in Cuba for all of the environmental variables you might want to include.  "Communist Dictatorship" is not exactly synonymous with "Scientific Excellence", at least not in my mind.  

Step 1: find the rain data you want to use.

Step 2: assemble your information on "good years" and quantify that.