air.grid - Live U.S. Air Quality & Emissions
Geospatial / Data
Live atlas of what's in the air across the U.S.: industrial emitters sized by emissions, real-time air quality sensors, and the schools and neighborhoods next to them, together on one interactive map. 268,980 facilities, 15,897 live sensors, real proximity joins, no mock data.
- Built and deployed in one day (Handshake AI Projects challenge, June 1, 2026) using Claude Code's multi-agent system: parallel ingestion subagents coordinated through a frozen data contract, with sequential gates for schema, joins, and QA.
- Pulls from 6 federal sources (EPA ECHO, FRS, TRI, GHGRP, NCES, Census ACS) plus AirNow, PurpleAir, and OpenAQ sensor networks; a geo-matcher joins 108,336 schools to their nearest emitters with scipy cKDTree.
- deck.gl over MapLibre renders 10k+ points at 60fps, with independent toggle layers for facilities, air quality, schools, demographics, and NWS wind drift.
- Hourly scheduled job keeps sensor readings live; every figure shows its timestamp and source, and an Analysis view ranks regions and surfaces the most-exposed campuses.