Visualization Tool for Environmental Sensing and Public Health Data
This tool assists public health professionals and residents affected by oil and gas development by providing a means to visualize and discuss environmental and health data, though it is incremental as it applies existing visualization methods to a new domain.
The researchers tackled the problem of aggregating and visualizing community-collected environmental and health data by developing the Environmental Health Channel, an interactive web-based tool that enables discussion and dissemination of scientific evidence to reveal local impacts of industrial activities.
To assist residents affected by oil and gas development, public health professionals in a non-profit organization have collected community data, including symptoms, air quality, and personal stories. However, the organization was unable to aggregate and visualize these data computationally. We present the Environmental Health Channel, an interactive web-based tool for visualizing environmental sensing and public health data. This tool enables discussing and disseminating scientific evidence to reveal local environmental and health impacts of industrial activities.