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I collaborated with my team at Hack4Impact and two EDGI members (a data scientist and political ecologist) to build an interactive data visualization platform for journalists and the public to understand trends in environmental violations.
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September 2023 - December 2023
Our partner, EDGI (Environmental Data Governance Initiative), is an environmental non-profit that aims to identify ways the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) neglects various communities throughout the United States. The EPA is supposed to perform routine checks on facilities throughout the US and penalize those that fail to meet environmental standards. However, many industries tend to commit more environmental violations than others. EDGI analyzes data from facilities in these industries to understand and report the extent of EPA violations by:
Generating PDF report cards that depict environmental violations by US Congressional District.
Currently, the report cards displays data by congressional district. Users must click into specific districts to view the PDF and are faced with slow loading times. This process can quickly become tedious if users are interested in multiple districts (which they often are).
The report cards themselves are difficult to scan, requiring users to scroll through pages and pages to find what they want.
Furthermore, the report cards use outdated census data from 2010, and EDGI needs to find a way to generate reports less reliant on census data.
The existing flow to access report cards
How might we improve EDGI’s data visualization reports for user-friendly access, streamlined navigation, and up-to-date data?