Context

Air is what keeps humans alive. Monitoring it and understanding its quality is of immense importance to our well-being.

Content

The dataset contains air quality data and AQI (Air Quality Index) at hourly and daily level of various stations across multiple cities in India.

AQI

A tutorial of how AQI is calculated is available here: https://www.kaggle.com/rohanrao/calculating-aqi-air-quality-index

Cities

Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Amaravati, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Brajrajnagar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Ernakulam, Gurugram, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jorapokhar, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna, Shillong, Talcher, Thiruvananthapuram, Visakhapatnam

Acknowledgements

The data has been made publicly available by the Central Pollution Control Board: https://cpcb.nic.in/ which is the official portal of Government of India. They also have a real-time monitoring app: https://app.cpcbccr.com/AQI_India/

Noise

Similar to air monitoring data, a dataset on noise decibel levels in India is available here: https://www.kaggle.com/rohanrao/noise-monitoring-data-in-india