Michigan Air Violations Tracker
I pitched, designed and developed an interactive platform for local environmental newsroom Planet Detroit that allows readers to explore the violation history of air polluters in Michigan. It updates every day with the newest violation notices issued by EGLE.
I made the dashboard using javascript—a first for me—and created a program that looks for new violation notices every day, parses them with pdfplumber, and adds them to the data.
It's regularly utilized by environmental lawyers, college educators and citizens. In its first week, the site helped us report on a chronic violator in Southwest Detroit. Deep gratitude to Planet Detroit for making this open data accessibility project possible.
Explore the dashboard →