Group09 proposal

Description Of The Problem And Motivation, Explaining Why It Is Worth Addressing. Our primary motivation for doing this project would be to provide a useful visualization for economic policy development. Climate change will without doubt cause great shifts in how everyone lives and does business within the next few decades. Billions of people will be affected. We are very motivated by this problem because one of our team members worked closely with the founder of Nomadlist.com, the No. 1 website for digital nomads. While working on it, he noticed that Air Quality Information (AQI) was affecting the way people looked at cities – if they were worth living and working in. We believe that as climate change unfolds, AQI will be one of the key indicators that helps anyone – especially policy makers – decide if progress is happening and at a pace which is feasible. In addition, we are working on helping travellers and digital nomads to filter cities by Air Quality Information (AQI). Nomads usually travel from place to place and want to work in countries that are conducive for their remote work. To plan their travels on an affordable budget, they usually use nomadlist.com to plan their trips in advance. As such, they need to know if countries they are planning to go to for an extended duration of time have a tendency to be polluted.

Currently, NomadList which uses a variant of the dataset we have, displays everything in a tabular format with so many different colors. This makes it visually confusing to any digital nomad that wants to quickly filter information out. The trend for digital nomads is growing – this product was the #1 product of the day on a top product website, with over 797 upvotes. More and more people are also becoming sensitive about climate change and want to know how polluted exactly various cities are. In addition, it would help climate scientists look at whether cities are responding adequately to climate change.

Describe The Data And Provide A List Of Data Used.

The data we are using is scraped from http://aqicn.org using a Ruby script. There are 921 cities in total out of a target list of around 960 cities. There are 39 missing cities because there are no sensors for those cities – not all cities have fully functional sensors connected to the AQICN platform.

The target list is from a JSON file that looks something like this:

We will have to merge these data with geodata so we can visualize AQI on a map.

A Background Survey Of Related Work And A List Of References. Include The 2-3 Most Relevant Pieces Of Prior Work In Your Presentation. Our project focuses on the correlations between economic development and political policy and the delta in the quantity of pollutants that results in, as well as any inverse relationships (i.e. does the quantity of pollutants affect economic development?)

In a 2017 paper, Guillaume Vandenbroucke and Heting Zhu both argue that ‘We find that pollution in the United States, measured by particulate matter or CO2 emissions, rises with economic activity, but at a noticeably slower pace.' Given the GDP of a country/city and the pollutant data we have, we will test this trend across more than just the United States.

In a chapter by Ying Li and Ke Chen, they note that over 70 years of China’s history, ‘Control policies have been largely ineffective and air quality in the majority of the nation has not been significantly improved and even worsened in many urban areas’. For each policy and the timeframe that they are being implemented over, we’d like to see if this claim is true and show a correlation between the policy and pollutants.

Post Your Full List Of References To Your Wiki Page. https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synopses/2017/06/23/measures-of-pollution https://www.intechopen.com/books/energy-management-for-sustainable-development/a-review-of-air-pollution-control-policy-development-and-effectiveness-in-china

A List Of The Key Technical Challenges Your Group Expects To Face And A Description (Or Storyboard) Of The Approach You Plan To Use To Address The Challenge.