đŸ€” Issue 5: Understanding Air Quality Data

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Oxygen Mag was designed to be an air pollution magazine curated not just by me, but by the whole comm
 

Oxygen Mag

January 17 - Issue #5 - View online
Handpicked stories for people who care about clean air.
Oxygen Mag was designed to be an air pollution magazine curated not just by me, but by the whole community. Today Nick Clarke, the project manager of QLEAR is at the wheel all the way from Shanghai. QLEAR is an IoT platform that monitors real-time indoor environmental data that tells you about indoor environmental quality and building performance and how to improve it. You can reach him directly via e-mail.
❀ If you know a friend or colleague who cares about air quality, please forward Oxygen Mag to them. Spread air pollution awareness with just one easy click on (1) Twitter (2) Facebook, or (3) via a quick e-mail.
🙌 Handpicked Stories For You
Today’s issue is curated by Nick Clarke on helping non-technical people understand air quality data and debunking some myths.
đŸ˜„ Demystifying Air Quality Numbers
www.livefrombeijing.com – Share
There are lots of numbers used to describe air quality these days in China. This post is intended as a glossary to demystify the different numbers currently used by various sources.
📊 Why you can’t average APIs
www.livefrombeijing.com – Share
What is the API? It’s also called “average pollution.” And most importantly, why it’s mathematically unwise to average these values!
🍳 Checking Your Indoor PM2.5, Cheaply, With The Laser Egg
www.myhealthbeijing.com – Share
If you have an air purifier in your home, you’d like to know if it’s doing it’s job or not. The only way to know this is to have a PM2.5 monitor to check your air. Learn about the Laser Egg air quality monitor.
👁 Which Air Quality Monitor Should I Buy?
www.thebeijinger.com – Share
GIGA, a Shanghai-based resource for healthy building standards recently posted this guide to air quality monitors. 
đŸ˜· Poor Man’s Face Mask Fit Test
smartairfilters.com – Share
Which mask works best on your face? I was fortunate enough to visit a lab to do a super fancy fit test, but very few of us have access to this $10,000 machine. So what should normal folks do? Written by SmartAirFilters.
đŸŒČ A Note From Smokey's Nest
Thank you Nick. ❀ Please share this air pollution magazine with one friend or colleague today. If you’re feeling social, we have easy one-click links to share on (1) Twitter (2) Facebook, and (3) via a quick e-mail. Click to try it out!
đŸ”„Â Exciting news! Next week, air pollution scientist Pallavi Pant joins us in Oxygen Mag. She will be curating stories that you ought to know about from across South Asia. Pallavi has a PhD in Environmental Health from the University of Birmingham (UK), and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts.  
📝 Are you a researcher, climatologist, journalist, entrepreneur or author? Would you like to curate an upcoming issue of Oxygen Mag? Just hit “reply” and send me a note. I reply to every message.
Until next time,
-Amrit Sharma đŸ˜·
Founder, AirAirAir and Smokey
New Delhi, India
http://www.airairair.org/
http://twitter.com/amrit_sharma
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