OpenAQ: Fighting Air Inequality through Open Data and ......• Collaborating on incentivizing open...
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Christa Hasenkopf, PhD
Co-Founder & CEO
openaq.org
OpenAQ: Fighting Air Inequality through Open
Data and Community
SCAQMD| Diamond Bar, CA | 27 Sep 2017
Slides: tinyurl.com/SCAQMD17
OpenAQ’s goal is to foster an ecosystem of diverse sectors and geographies using open air quality data and connecting with each other to fight air pollution better.
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First Principles that Drive OpenAQ
• Air pollution is one of the globe’s biggest killers.
Change =
Both require community + data
Political Will + A Plan
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3 Global AQ Data Gaps:
1. Geography Gap(s)
2. Accessibility Gap
3. The So What Gap
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Countries where near real-time gov’t AQ is available in some form*
*That we know of. Know of others? Say so!
1. Geography Gap
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2. Accessibility Gap
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Calibrating Low-Cost
Sensors, Incorporating
data with AOD,
Forecasting
Public Health Policy + Analysis
Public Engagement (e.g.
apps, bots)
Media
Educational Activities
Open,
Transparent,
Accessible
Universal Data
Layer
Disparate Public
Air Quality
Data Across
the World
Bridging the Accessibility Gap
OpenAQ
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• PM10, PM2.5, BC, O3, CO, NO2, SO2
• Primarily gov’t sources
• >100 million total measurements,
~250,000+ added daily
• 7800+ monitored stations in 61 countries
• Data accessible via API, csv files, user-
customized files via openaq.org
openaq Programmatic, transparent access to historical + NRT
station AQ data in a universal format:
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Open Source: github.com/openaq
Grassroots Effort
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OpenAQ Fetch
• Adapters reach out
for new data every
10 minutes
• Validation is
technical, not a data
quality judgement
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3. The So What Gap
Delhi OpenAQ, Nov 2016
In-Person, via Workshops
Virtually, on Slack:
• Public Health Researchers
• Air Quality Agency Staff
• Activists
• Journalists
• Medical Doctors
• Think Tank Staff
• Software Developers
• Low-Cost Sensor Developers
• Educators
• Artists
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3. The So What Gap
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Expanding Our Platform• More gov’t data
sources – working
directly with gov’ts
• More meta data
• New data types
• More workshops
• Incentivizing open data
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Collaboration Points
• Connections with low-cost sensor work
• Connecting communities
• Collaborating on incentivizing open data projects
• Data, open-source work, workshops
Our goal is to foster an ecosystem of diverse sectors and geographies using open air quality data andconnecting with each other to fight air pollution better.
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thankyou
• The entire OpenAQ Community!
Contact us: openaq.org | [email protected] | @open_aq
• You, for your attention! (What ways can we collaborate?)
• Our organizational partners and sponsors
Slides: tinyurl.com/SCAQMD17