Air quality data

Air pollution poses a major environmental risk to human health. It's found that there exists a correlation between improved air quality and amelioration of different health problems such as respiratory infections, cardiovascular diseases, and lung cancer. The extensive sensor networks throughout the world by Meteorological Organizations of the respective country provide us with real-time air quality data. This data can be accessed through the respective web APIs of these organizations. 

In this book, we'll use the historical air quality data to train our network and predict the mortality rate. The historical data for England is available freely at Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/c/predict-impact-of-air-quality-on-death-rates), and the air quality data consists of daily means of ozone (O3), Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter with a diameter less than or equal to 10 micrometers (PM10) and PM25 (2.5 micrometers or less), and temperature. The mortality rate (number of deaths per 100,000 people) for England region is obtained by the data provided by the UK Office for National Statistics.