Our group’s open-source web application designed to draw increased attention towards the socioeconomic disparities underlying air pollution exposure in a public-facing and accessible medium.
With this app, you can:
- Search for your community
- Examine air pollution components
- Compare demographic disparities
RESEARCH MOTIVATION:
Socioeconomic Status & Pollution Exposure
Existing researchin biostatistics literature suggests that exposure to air pollution varies precipitously not only across the country, but as predicated on the basis of certain racial/ethnic and income groups.
PROJECT OBJECTIVE:
Improving Air Quality
The goal of this webapp is to highlight the aforementioned disparities in a public-facing and accessible medium. We hope this tool will bring an element of personalization to air quality visualization, informing policy outcomes in the process.
TECHNICAL OVERVIEW:
Linking Together Different Data Sources
Demographic data was sourced from the Decennial Census and combined with predictions of air pollution components generated by a research team at Harvard. The cumulative dataset spans across different levels of geographic granularity.