Crowdsourcing-driven bioindication framework

THE CHALLENGE: Aircheck
Earth

Develop an app or platform to crowd-source information for comparing changes in environmental factors, such as temperature, relative humidity, air pollution, with occurrence of symptoms of allergies and respiratory diseases. Create tools for public entry and grading of symptoms, including but not limited to cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, sneezing, nasal obstruction, itchy eyes; and geographic mapping of symptom frequency and intensity. Create a platform for comparison of symptom map with NASA provided data, with visualization options for web and/or smart phone.

Explanation

Originally the #Aircheck challenge mentions the tool for public entry of one's symptoms and combining them with open data sources of environmental factors. But we recall the quote of famous character Dr. Greg House - "Everybody lies" and decided to collect data from honest organisms - plants. In biology science this method called as "bioindication".

Resources Used

Listed in the specification document on Github

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