Data4Good

Clean Air Project

for Coalition for Clean Air

August 2020

Tiffany Feng

Scripting and Concept Sketching

Introduction
In August 2020, I was able to work on a project with Data4Good for the Coalition for Clean
Air. The project was the Clean Air Project, a data visualization dashboard and data
management web tool. The tool was made for displaying and analyzing air sensor data in
Los Angeles for Coalition for Clean Air (a clean air advocacy group ).

During the project, I was able to:

• Design and build a prototype for a data management and data visualization web tool
for air sensor data for the Coalition for Clean Air.

• Work with an interdisciplinary team and learn about all aspects of product
development and the design thinking process.

• Conduct user testing & interviewing, journey mapping, wireframing, feature

prioritization, and high fidelity mockup creation.

• Develop R scripts for the tool that would convert Particulate Matter concentration into
an Air Quality Index value, taking into account how such values should be calculated and
handled.

In this report, you wil find a link to my script and my concept sketches.
Scripting
This script gives a table of daily AQI values by converting averaged PM 2.5 data to AQI
values. It uses Purple Air data exports.

View the script here: tfeng456.github.io/pm25-to-aqi-purple-air

This script was created to be used in the data management web tool. I created R scripts
for the tool that would convert Particulate Matter concentration into an Air Quality Index
value, taking into account how such values should be calculated and handled. For
example, only daily average Particulate Matter values can be converted to AQI accurately.

This script was made to be used with the .csv files downloaded from Purple Air's website
and works with the format of the .csv files as of 08-17-2020.
Concept Sketching