Using Analytics to Measure the Impact of Pollution Parameters in Major Cities of India

Title

Using Analytics to Measure the Impact of Pollution Parameters in Major Cities of India

Creator

Kapse M.; Elangovan N.; Kumar A.; Selvam J.D.

Description

Coronavirus is airborne and can spread easily. Air pollution may have an impact on breathing and also keep the virus airborne. The levels of air pollution were impacted by the lockdown measures, restricting the vehicular and industrial pollutants. Therefore, there is a need to understand the relation between air pollution levels and the Coronavirus infection rate. The study aims to find the effect of various pollutants across major cities of India on the R-value. The pollution data was collected from the Governments official portal. The major pollutants on which the data was collected are PM2.5, PM10, NO, NO2, NOx, SO2, CO, and Ozone. The data on air pollution levels were also collected for the selected cities from April 2020 to April 2021. The spread is measured as the reproduction number at time t (Rt), which is an estimate of infectious disease transmissibility throughout an outbreak, or it is the rating of Coronavirus or any diseases ability to spread. The data is analysed using MS Excel and R Programming. Descriptive statistics and regularisation are performed on the data. The study results reveal that some pollutants positively and negatively affect the infection rate. However, the effect is very low, and it concluded that the pollution might not directly affect infection rates. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023.

Source

Analytics Enabled Decision Making, pp. 265-280.

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

Springer Nature

Subject

Air pollution; CO; COVID-19; Economic activity; Infection rate; NO; NO2; NOx; Ozone; PM10; PM2.5; Population density; SO₂

Coverage

Kapse M., Symbiosis Center for Management and Human Resource Development, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India; Elangovan N., CHRIST (Deemed to Be University), Bengaluru, India; Kumar A., Tata Consultancy Services, Bengaluru, India; Selvam J.D., CHRIST (Deemed to Be University), Bengaluru, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 978-981199658-0; 978-981199657-3

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9658-0_12

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