CLIMATE CHANGE DASHBOARD Part 2 — Draft and Ideation
Continuing on our journey of developing a Climate Dashboard for the World
We need a public, online climate change dashboard urgently!
The impacts of climate change are already being felt and will only worsen if we don’t take immediate action. The dashboard would provide a comprehensive platform to enable users to access and understand the data and information necessary to take action on climate change. By providing access to data, news, and climate-related politics and funding, users will have the information they need to make informed decisions about how to address the climate crisis.
Who will Use it?
The easiest way to think of who will use this dashboard is to group them into use cases or essentially what they are using it for. This is in contrast to saying only young people will use it because climate change will be really bad by the time they are their parents’ age.
In the image shown above, it is evident there are numerous use cases for the climate dashboard.
Considering how each of them will use it, will help develop a sounder layout so no one has to work too hard to find something:
- Scientists and policymakers: to understand the impacts of climate change and develop strategies to address it.
- Activists: to stay up-to-date with the latest news and find climate action initiatives to join.
- Journalists: to report on climate change events.
- Educators and Students: for research and to stay informed about the issue.
- Business Leaders: to track their emissions and find ways to reduce their impact on the environment.
- The Passionate: to stay informed about climate change and find ways to reduce their own emissions.
- Construction Leaders (not shown above): would be interested in knowing which materials they should be using to minimize carbon emissions
Based on these user profiles, we can start to develop a list of features:
- Weather Data that can be displayed on the map (as text bubble), combined with news articles for that location — so one can see the weather, related events and develop a hypothesis for possible mitigation efforts
- News Stream — to see latest climate news. Can be filtered by location, date and event type (summer storm, winter storm, legislation, support event and climate rallys)
- Social media streams for climate relate hashatags
- Climate Action Score for Politicians
- Weather database, current and historical
- Weather Data analytics and charting
- Climate rallys and event alerts
- Personal Carbon Emissions Logging and Tracking
- Emissions data collection and analytics (very distant in the future)
- Construction materials listing for low to zero carbon emitting materials and techniques
With this information in hand, we have now laid a solid foundation for the next step; data resource research.
Stay tuned for Part 3 where we dive in to Google and try find reliable and cheap (hopefully free) data sources.
PS: If you have not read Part 1, here it is: CLIMATE CHANGE DASHBOARD Part 1 — For The World
Remo
