Data Science for Environmental Justice PBL Module: Air Pollution Data

This is a PBL module on Air Pollution to be used in an introductory environmental science course to motivate students to analyze related environmental justice issues.Original data was from the US EPA data on "State EJScreen Data at the Block Group Level" (EJSCREEN_2023_BG_StatePct_with_AS_CNMI_GU_VI.csv) which was downloaded from https://www.epa.gov/ejscreen/download-ejscreen-data on December 20, 2023. (Note: Access to the EJSCREEN tool was removed during February 2005).This data was processed and cleaned as described in the data provenance document.Lecture Slides, Activity Sheets and Instructor Notes are available here.The following files are included:<b>Data Provenance and Data Dictionary: </b>Data Provenance and Data Dictionary.pdf<b>R Script for Data Processing:</b> EJSCREEN_Data_Curation_NC_Summarized_by_County.R<b>Processed Dataset for North Carolina:</b> EJScreen_State_BGLevel_NC_13Columns.csv<b>Curated Data used in the Module - Summarized Dataset for North Carolina (summarized by county): </b>EJScreen_State_BGLevel_NC_Summarized_By_County_13Columns.csv<b>Data Dictionary: </b>Data_Dictionary_EJSCREEN_2023_BG_Columns.pdf<b>Original Dataset from EPA/EJSCREEN from which Data was Extracted for North Carolina: </b>DS4EJ_EJSCREEN_2023_BG_StatePct_with_AS_CNMI_GU_VI.csv<br>