opened latest.mdf.pickle loaded an object with type: first tuple: (13.199999999999999, 'CHER') last tuple: (22.0, 'HOLL') the maximum temperature is 22.0 C, at HOLL the minimum temperature is 13.2 C, at CHER number of missing measurements at the site (top ten offenders): SULP 9 RETR 9 MTHE 9 CLRM 9 MEDF 8 NINN 7 BURB 7 WEBB 6 NEWP 6 MADI 6 fraction of sites with missing measurements: PRES has 0.9% missing SRAD has 0.9% missing TA9M has 13.8% missing TB05 has 4.3% missing TR05 has 21.6% missing TR25 has 17.2% missing TR60 has 37.1% missing TR75 has 62.9% missing TS05 has 9.5% missing TS10 has 0.9% missing TS30 has 8.6% missing WDIR has 1.7% missing WDSD has 1.7% missing WS2M has 12.1% missing zip experiment: [(1, 3), (2, 4)] average temp: 17.292 You may need to use sqrt, for example; 1.41421356237 correlation of wssd with newind: 0.769186041848 correlation of wdsd with wssd: 0.778954189604