Climate Change is one of the greatest dilemmas humanity has ever encountered, yet its symptoms and consequences are still not fully grasped to this day. The swathes of information in its current state are not always accessible, or not always comprehendible to people who are not researchers in the area. This has led to large amounts of polarity in its accepted existence and magnitude among the general populous. Resultantly, there is a growing stagnation in how we as a civilization are acting to counteract it.
This issue is understood by specialists and publications, and there is work being done to improve the public�s understanding of the dilemma through news briefings and data visualisations, however these are not always tailored to a general audience.
Our proposed solution to this obstacle is to allow people to not only perceive but interact with the data in a manner that suits them. By creating a solution that maps the data visually, while also allowing for the user to decompose the data in their own style, we can make the materials digestible.
Therefore, we�re creating a web application, with easy to digest graphs, to provide the largest amount of accessibility to our audience. Our solution will utilise Python and the Flask Microframework for our backend. Python is a language our team is well versed with, with the bonus of having an extensive library ecosystem for data. We will employ a mix of HTML, JavaScript and a CSS Framework to build the frontend UI, and interactive map. This will all be tied together by helper languages and libraries like SQL and P5js to operate our map.
- Python 3.10 installed
- PIP installed
pip install -r requirements.txt
SET FLASK_APP=app
TSE-Group-2/Backend/flaskapp:# flask run
