EnviroViz

We (as a group of computer scientists) determined that the largest problem is that many people accept that global warming and climate change exist, however they are not aware of either the implications of that nor how soon we are to this "doom".

Hence, we decided to collaborate and take existing data to form models in which we used to make a "Doomsday clock" which will countdown to the point that we decided was humanities "doom". We determined that this point (after some quick research) was when the average global temperature reaches 4 degrees above the average (which is about 17.9 degrees Celsius). We then conveyed that information into a clock which will count down to help raise awareness of the importance of this problem!

How we built it

We built this project using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The base webpage was designed using HTML and CSS, where the rest of the functionality is held in the JS files. We hosted a JSON file online which was data for temperatures over the last fourty years, and then used a few regression models to map out potential functions to predict future trends. We then took the trend with the smallest error.

Challenges

One of the biggest challenges we faced was the fact that we could not host our data locally. JavaScript didn't allow us to load in a file locally from our laptops and then there were some further issues with scope after we figured out that we needed to host it externally.

Additionally, we are not environmental scientists. We only had 24 hours to research the topic as well as plan and design our web page, hence we're not entirely confident with the accuracy of our data. However, via our research, we can confidently say we have a relatively good estimate from data from other sources.

Built With

• css
• html
• javascript