In COGS 108, my group and I researched, and created a data collection of different data sets throughout the year. The above research question and hypothesis led our project and Python code.
Did California Air Quality significantly improve in different areas due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the change in car traffic volume?
We hypothesize that COVID-19 has had an overall good effect from 2020-2022 on Air Quality based on AQI (Air Quality Index). We think that the pandemic has led to more WFH (work-from-home) and remote opportunities for the general population of California, thus changing the amount of air pollution caused by a reduction in car traffic via commuting. We acknowledge that there may be some confounding variables including regional industries, population per capita, and lockdown restrictions
The images to the right, resemble different graphs and scatterplots we created to illustrate the data we collected and grouped together