Description
AirVis is a webapp that visualizes air quality data from any inputted location. It uses the google maps API in order to geocode the inputted location and then the Breezometer API to gather air quality data. Numerical data is presented in a interactive table, in which you can learn more about the pollutants in the air, as well as an air quality for each pollutant. Numerical data is also visualized as micrograms of pollutants per liter of air.
Intentionality
As the climate crisis continues to worsen, I think it is important to present pollution data to users both at a high level and a low level. My intention was to create a useful tool that could show the climate crisis in various regions around the world, as well as being a general air quality query.
Significance
Although solving the climate crisis is not something I am able to do at this hackathon, I think the least I can do is to show people just how polluted some areas of the world actually are, as well as display how some places around the world are doing pollution control correctly.
Technical Depth
Admittedly, the only real technical challenge of significance here was figuring out the API calls and making sure that I was receiving the correct data. The rest of the work was just building a presentable website. Also resizing bootstrap columns.
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