Pradooshan.com
PM2.5 air quality forecasts for Indian cities using Copernicus/CAMS data. Supports Hindi and English, with work underway to expand to all 22 scheduled Indic languages using AI4Bharat models from IIT Madras.
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Technology Portfolio
Technology is a means to solve problems and be a force for good in the world. Here's a showcase of tech products I've built over the years.
Air Quality Platforms
OMGwildfires.com
Tracks wildfire-air quality interactions across Canada and the US. Translates smoke and health consequences for general audiences.
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BreathingKills.com
Uses the University of Chicago's AQLI life-expectancy data to show that people in South Asia's most polluted regions lose 5-12 years of life to PM2.5 exposure.
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Mobile Apps
India or Pakistan
Can you spot the difference between India and Pakistan? More than 380,000 downloads worldwide. 4.2 rating on Google Play store.
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Chatbots
Smokey on Facebook Messenger
Makes real-time air quality data accessible and easy-to-understand on the most popular messaging platform. Delivered over 740,000 reports across 19 countries.
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Smokey on Twitter
Brings beautifully designed air quality reports to academics, media professionals, students, NGOs, and environmentalists.
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Multi-lingual Smokey
Hindi, Nepali, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, and more — crowdsourced by community volunteers to bring air quality reports to non-English speaking audiences across South Asia.
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Maps
Emoji Air Pollution Map v2
No AQI numbers. No PM2.5 values. Just emojis. Aggregates data from 8,400+ reference-grade monitoring stations and NASA satellite fire data. Featured by NASA Applied Sciences as a model case study for the ARSET satellite training program.
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Emoji Air Pollution Map v1
The first version containing data from over 8,000 air quality stations around the world in 64 countries.
Websites
India Loves Pakistan
I have a dream that one day people will be judged by the content of their character, and not the color of their passport.
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Chrome Extensions
How To Speak Canadian
Yonge Street is the longest street in North America. But how do you pronounce it? Is it Yonjee or Yongay? Neither, it's Young. A chrome extension for newcomers to Canada.
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