{"id":171316,"date":"2014-03-24T02:17:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T02:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/urban-air\/"},"modified":"2018-04-02T19:26:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T02:26:10","slug":"urban-air","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/urban-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"asset-content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-213301 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_logo-04.png\" alt=\"urbanair_logo-04\" width=\"156\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_logo-04.png 156w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_logo-04-80x60.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/>Using a diversity of big data to infer and predict fine-grained air quality throughout a city, and finally tackle air pollutions.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"86372f48-cb3d-4197-a2fd-e6bd06017bcb\" class=\"ImageBlock fn\"><span id=\"ImageCaption86372f48-cb3d-4197-a2fd-e6bd06017bcb\" class=\"ImageCaptionCoreCss ImageCaption\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-213304 alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_getworse_small.gif\" alt=\"urbanair_getworse_small\" width=\"597\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/urbanair.msra.cn\/\"><strong>http:\/\/urbanair.msra.cn\/<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/yourweather.azurewebsites.net\/\"><strong>Install Mobile Apps<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Many countries are suffering from air pollutions. Many cities have built a few\u00a0air quality monitoring stations to inform people urban air quality every hour. Influenced by multiple complex factors, however,\u00a0urban air quality is\u00a0highly skewed in a city, varying by locations significantly and changing over time differently in different places. Thus, we\u00a0do not know the air quality of a location without a monitoring station. We do not what the air quality\u00a0at a place will be tomorrow either, let alone the root cause the air pollution.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This project aims to predict the fine-grained air quality of current time throughout a city and forecast the air quality of future time at each monitoring\u00a0station. We also expect to identify the root cause of air pollution. For example, what&#8217;s the proportion of PM2.5 in the environment\u00a0derived from vehicular emission. what is the spatio-temporal causality interaction between the air pollutions\u00a0of different cities?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Led by Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yuzheng\/\">Yu Zheng<\/a>, Urban Air is also a sub-project of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/urban-computing\/\">Urban Computing<\/a>, which is a research theme that aims to tackle big challenges in cities by using big data.<\/p>\n\t<div data-wp-context='{\"items\":[]}' data-wp-interactive=\"msr\/accordion\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn-group align-items-center mb-g float-sm-right\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-bi-aN=\"accordion-collapse-controls\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-link m-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-bi-cN=\"Expand all\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-controls=\"state.ariaControls\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.ariaExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--disabled=\"state.isAllExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-class--inactive=\"state.isAllExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onExpandAll\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand all\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span aria-hidden=\"true\"> | <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-link m-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-bi-cN=\"Collapse all\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-controls=\"state.ariaControls\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.ariaExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--disabled=\"state.isAllCollapsed\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-class--inactive=\"state.isAllCollapsed\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onCollapseAll\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCollapse all\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"msr-accordion\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-2\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-2\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-1\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\tFramework\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-1\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-2\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<table style=\"height: 264px;\" width=\"644\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left; vertical-align: top;\">The research has been publicly available through a &#8220;cloud + client&#8221; framework, where the cloud continuously collect real-time data, such meteorological data and air quality data. A user can access the air quality information through using a mobile client or web client.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A public website is: <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/urbanair.msra.cn\/\">http:\/\/urbanair.msra.cn\/<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Urban Air on Bing Maps: <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cn.bing.com\/ditu\/\">http:\/\/cn.bing.com\/ditu\/<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Install all versions of Chinese mobile apps on <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/yourweather.azurewebsites.net\/\">one page<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A English version of the\u00a0app for Windows Phones is <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/s?appid=f36d5a33-2ccc-45f5-afd2-0c1afc5fc6dc\">here<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 150px; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-213307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_2dbarcode_urbanair-300x300.png\" alt=\"urbanair_2dbarcode_urbanair\" width=\"142\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_2dbarcode_urbanair-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_2dbarcode_urbanair-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_2dbarcode_urbanair-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_2dbarcode_urbanair-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_2dbarcode_urbanair.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><strong><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/s?appid=f36d5a33-2ccc-45f5-afd2-0c1afc5fc6dc\"><span id=\"406d34ad-89a7-4caf-8a8c-14dba500c0c9\" class=\"ImageBlock fn\"><span id=\"ImageCaption406d34ad-89a7-4caf-8a8c-14dba500c0c9\" class=\"ImageCaptionCoreCss ImageCaption\">Urban Air<\/span><\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-213310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_framework.jpg\" alt=\"urbanair_framework\" width=\"596\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_framework.jpg 1133w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_framework-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_framework-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_framework-1024x547.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_framework-710x380.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/en-us\/store\/app\/urban-air\/f36d5a33-2ccc-45f5-afd2-0c1afc5fc6dc\">WPhone-En<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(Chinese <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/yourweather.azurewebsites.net\/\">Mobile Apps<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0website: <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/urbanair.msra.cn\/\"><b>http:\/\/urbanair.msra.cn\/<\/b><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-4\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-4\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-3\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\tStep 1: Infer Fine-Grained Air Quality\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-3\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-4\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p align=\"justify\">The first step of this project is to infer the real-time and fine-grained air quality of arbitrary location by using two parts of data. One is the real-time and historical air quality data from existing monitoring stations. The other is five additional data sources we observed in a city, consisting of meteorological data, traffic, human mobility, POIs, and road network data. We propose a semi-supervised learning approach based on a co-training framework that consists of two separated classifiers. One is a spatial classifier based on an artificial neural network (ANN), which takes spatially-related features (e.g., the density of POIs and length of highways) as input to model the spatial correlation between air qualities of different locations. The other is a temporal classifier based on a linear-chain conditional random field (CRF), involving temporally-related features (e.g., traffic and meteorology) to model the temporal dependency of air quality in a location. Read the related publications for more details.<\/p>\n<p><b>Publications:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>[1] Yu Zheng, Furui Liu, Hsun-Ping Hsieh. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/u-air-when-urban-air-quality-inference-meets-big-data\/\">U-Air: When Urban Air Quality Inference Meets Big Data<\/a>. In\u00a0Proceedings of the 19th SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (<b>KDD 2013<\/b>). (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/u-air-when-urban-air-quality-inference-meets-big-data\/\">Data<\/a>) (<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/urbanair.msra.cn\/\">Website<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>) (<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/en-us\/store\/app\/urban-air\/f36d5a33-2ccc-45f5-afd2-0c1afc5fc6dc\">Mobile App<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>)(Video)[2] Yu Zheng, Xuxu Chen, Qiwei Jin, Yubiao Chen, Xiangyun Qu, Xin Liu, Eric Chang, Wei-Ying Ma, Yong Rui, Weiwei Sun. <a class=\"invalidLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-cloud-based-knowledge-discovery-system-for-monitoring-fine-grained-air-quality\/\">A Cloud-Based Knowledge Discovery System for Monitoring Fine-Grained Air Quality<\/a>. MSR-TR-2014-40.<\/p>\n<p>A Dataset is released for research purposes: download the data.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-6\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-6\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-5\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\tStep 2: Forecast Air Quality at Each Station\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-5\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-6\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p align=\"justify\">The second step is to predict the fine-grained air quality of the next 48 hours. Specifically, in the first 6 coming hours, we predict a real-valued AQI for each kind of air pollutant, at each hour, in each station. For the next 7-12, 12-24, and 24-48 hours, we predict a max-min range of the AQIs at the corresponding time interval. Our predictive model is comprised of four major components: 1) a linear regression-based temporal predictor to model the local factor of air quality, 2) a neural network-based spatial predictor modeling the global factors, 3) a dynamic aggregator combining the predictions of the spatial and temporal predictors according to the meteorological data, and 4) an inflection predictor to capture the sudden changes of air quality.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-213313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_flyer-forecast.png\" alt=\"urbanair_flyer-forecast\" width=\"596\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_flyer-forecast.png 941w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_flyer-forecast-300x72.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_flyer-forecast-768x184.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Publication:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>[1]<b> Yu Zheng<\/b>, Xiuwen Yi, Ming Li, Ruiyuan Li, Zhangqing Shan, Eric Chang, Tianrui Li. <a class=\"invalidLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/forecasting-fine-grained-air-quality-based-on-big-data\/\">Forecasting Fine-Grained Air Quality Based on Big Data<\/a>. In the Proceeding of the 21th SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (<b>KDD 2015<\/b>).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Data-1.zip\">Data Released!!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The service of Urban Air covers 300 cities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"1193facf-dfda-4652-8dee-7f8d09f6df91\" class=\"ImageBlock fn\"><span id=\"ImageCaption1193facf-dfda-4652-8dee-7f8d09f6df91\" class=\"ImageCaptionCoreCss ImageCaption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-309974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_changing_coverage.gif\" alt=\"urbanair_changing_coverage\" width=\"701\" height=\"516\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-8\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-8\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-7\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\tStep 3: Deployment of Air Quality Monitoring Stations\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-7\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-8\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Given a limited budget to build a few additional air quality monitoring stations, where shall we put them? The research solves this problem from the perspective of maximizing the inference accuracy and stability.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"1193facf-dfda-4652-8dee-7f8d09f6df91\" class=\"ImageBlock fn\"><span id=\"ImageCaption1193facf-dfda-4652-8dee-7f8d09f6df91\" class=\"ImageCaptionCoreCss ImageCaption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-213316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_station-selection.png\" alt=\"urbanair_station-selection\" width=\"596\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_station-selection.png 740w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/urbanair_station-selection-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] Hsun-Ping Hsieh*, Shou-De Lin, <b>Yu Zheng<\/b>. <a class=\"invalidLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/inferring-air-quality-for-station-location-recommendation-based-on-urban-big-data\/\">Inferring Air Quality for Station Location Recommendation Based on Big Data<\/a>. In the Proceeding of the 21th SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (<b>KDD 2015<\/b>).<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-10\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-10\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-9\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\tStep 4: Identify the Root Cause of Air Pollution\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-9\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-10\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<ol>\n<li>Study the correlation between vehicular emission and air quality<\/li>\n<li>Identify the spatio-temporal causality between air pollutants of different cities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-417785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/flyer-air-pollution-causality.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"878\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/flyer-air-pollution-causality.png 878w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/flyer-air-pollution-causality-300x71.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/flyer-air-pollution-causality-768x183.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Publication:<\/p>\n<p>[1]\u00a0Julie Yixuan Zhu, Chao Zhang, Huichu Zhang, Shi Zhi, Victor O.K. Li, Jiawei Han, and <strong>Yu Zheng<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/pg-causality-identifying-spatiotemporal-causal-pathways-air-pollutants-urban-big-data\/\">pg-Causality: Identifying Spatiotemporal Causal Pathways for Air Pollutants with Urban Big Data.<\/a> IEEE Transactions on Big Data. DOI: 10.1109\/TBDATA.2017.2723899\u00a0(<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Joliezyx\/causal_pathway_training\">Code and Data<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>)[2] Julie Yixuan Zhu, Chao Zhang, Yu Zheng, Shi Zhi, Victor O.K. Li, Jiawei Han. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1610.07045\">p-Causality: Identifying Spatio-temporal Causal Pathways for Air Pollutants with Urban Big Data<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, arXiv<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-12\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-12\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-11\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\tStep 5: Study the Impact of Air Pollution to People&#039;s Health\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-11\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-12\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><b>Media Coverage:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>[1] <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/lists\/innovators-under-35\/2013\/visionary\/yu-zheng\/\">Analyzing newly available data about the intricacies of urban life could make cities better<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u201d <b>MIT Technology Review<\/b>. 2013.8.21[2] Interviewed by IFeng.com. <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tech.ifeng.com\/talk\/specialtalk\/special\/citycomputing\/\">Big data can predict air quality<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. 2013.11.29 (In Chineses)[3] ComputerWorld: <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/2934596\/green-it\/microsoft-predicts-chinas-air-pollution-with-data-analysis.html\">Microsoft predicts China\u2019s air pollution with data analysis<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, 2015.6.11[4] Ming Pao (HK): <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.mingpao.com\/pns\/\u5fae\u8edf\u5927\u6578\u64da\u5206\u6790%20\u5be6\u6642\u76e3\u6e2c\u6e2f\u7a7a\u6c23\/web_tc\/article\/20150609\/s00002\/1433786930171\">Microsoft predicts air quality with big data<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, 2015.6.10[5] GeekWire Reporter: <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2015\/pollution-beijing-reaches-extreme-levels-heres-microsoft-research-help\/\">What Microsoft Research is doing to help Beijing air pollution<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a02015.11.30[6] NBC News: <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/innovation\/microsoft-ibm-eye-big-business-opportunity-china-s-air-pollution-n487001\">Microsoft, IBM Eye Big Business Opportunity in China\u2019s Air Pollution<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. 2015.12.28[7] Reuters: <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-pollution-idUSKBN0UB1KB20151229\">Tech giants spot opportunity in forecasting China\u2019s smog<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, 2015.12.28[8] China Daily: <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/usa.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2016-01\/19\/content_23145602.htm\">Microsoft, IBM eye Technology to forecast air pollution in China<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. 2016.1.19[9] IEEE Spectrum: <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/energy\/environment\/ai-and-big-data-vs-air-pollution\">AI and Big Data vs. Air Pollution<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. 2016.12.19<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a diversity of big data to infer and predict fine-grained air quality throughout a city, and finally tackle air pollutions. \u00a0 http:\/\/urbanair.msra.cn\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Install Mobile Apps Many countries are suffering from air pollutions. Many cities have built a few\u00a0air quality monitoring stations to inform people urban air quality every hour. Influenced by multiple complex factors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556,13563],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-171316","msr-project","type-msr-project","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-research-area-data-platform-analytics","msr-locale-en_us","msr-archive-status-active"],"msr_project_start":"2012-07-24","related-publications":[168662,168410,166675,166411,164935],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[190672,242045],"related-groups":[],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[],"related-articles":[],"tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"Media Coverage","content":"<h2>Media Coverage<\/h2>\r\n<div id=\"en-usprojectsurbanairdefault\" class=\"page-content\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>China Daily: <a href=\"http:\/\/usa.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2016-01\/19\/content_23145602.htm\" target=\"_self\">Microsoft, IBM eye Technology to forecast air pollution in China<\/a>. 2016.1.19<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u4e2d\u56fd\u79d1\u6280\u62a5\uff1a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wokeji.com\/\/shouye\/dpsg\/201601\/t20160111_2133544.shtml\" target=\"_self\">\u73af\u5883\u4ece\u6cbb\u7406\u8d70\u5411\u667a\u7406<\/a>, 2016.1.11<\/li>\r\n \t<li>NBC News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/innovation\/microsoft-ibm-eye-big-business-opportunity-china-s-air-pollution-n487001\" target=\"_self\">Microsoft, IBM Eye Big Business Opportunity in China's Air Pollution<\/a>. 2015.12.28<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Reuters: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-pollution-idUSKBN0UB1KB20151229\" target=\"_self\">Tech giants spot opportunity in forecasting China's smog<\/a>, 2015.12.28<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u4e2d\u56fd\u73af\u5883\u62a5\uff1a<a href=\"http:\/\/news.cenews.com.cn\/html\/2015-12\/14\/content_37438.htm\">\u9884\u6d4b\u96fe\u973e\uff0c\u5927\u6570\u636e\u80fd\u5e2e\u4ec0\u4e48\u5fd9\uff1f<\/a>\uff0c2015.12.14<\/li>\r\n \t<li>GeekWire Reporter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2015\/pollution-beijing-reaches-extreme-levels-heres-microsoft-research-help\/\" target=\"_self\">What Microsoft Research is doing to help Beijing air pollution<\/a>. 2015.11.30<\/li>\r\n \t<li>ComputerWorld: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/2934596\/green-it\/microsoft-predicts-chinas-air-pollution-with-data-analysis.html\" target=\"_self\">Microsoft predicts China's air pollution with data analysis<\/a>, 2015.6.11<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u9999\u6e2f\u660e\u62a5\uff1a<a href=\"http:\/\/news.mingpao.com\/pns\/\u5fae\u8edf\u5927\u6578\u64da\u5206\u6790%20\u5be6\u6642\u76e3\u6e2c\u6e2f\u7a7a\u6c23\/web_tc\/article\/20150609\/s00002\/1433786930171\">\u5fae\u8edf\u5927\u6578\u64da\u5206\u6790 \u5be6\u6642\u76e3\u6e2c\u6e2f\u7a7a\u6c23<\/a> 2015.6.10<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u65b0\u534e\u7f51\uff1a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/tech\/2015-01\/13\/c_127383443.htm\">\u5fae\u8f6f\u90d1\u5b87\uff1a\u5927\u6570\u636e\u89e3\u51b3\u57ce\u5e02\u4e2d\u7684\u5927\u6311\u6218<\/a>\u30022015.1.13<\/li>\r\n \t<li>\u51e4\u51f0\u7f51\uff08\u4e13\u8bbf\uff09. <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.ifeng.com\/talk\/specialtalk\/special\/citycomputing\/\">\u5fae\u8f6f\u90d1\u5b87\uff1a\u5927\u6570\u636e\u53ef\u9884\u6d4b\u7a7a\u6c14\u6c61\u67d3 \u4eba\u4eba\u90fd\u662f\u79fb\u52a8\u4f20\u611f\u5668<\/a>. 2013.11.29<\/li>\r\n \t<li>MIT\u79d1\u6280\u8bc4\u8bba\uff1a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/lists\/innovators-under-35\/2013\/visionary\/yu-zheng\/\">\u90d1\u5b87\u5165\u90092013\u5168\u740335\u4f4d35\u5c81\u4ee5\u4e0b\u6770\u51fa\u521b\u65b0\u8005\uff08TR35\uff09.<\/a>2013.8<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>"},{"id":1,"name":"Acknowledgements","content":"<div id=\"en-usprojectsurbanairdefault\" class=\"page-content\">\r\n<h2>Acknowledgement<\/h2>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div id=\"en-usprojectsurbanairdefault\" class=\"page-content\">\r\n\r\nWe\u00a0appreciate our\u00a0partners from Microsoft Product Teams who have been working with us closely in this project.\r\n\r\nSpecifically, Jacky Hsu, Qinying Liao\u00a0and\u00a0their team\u00a0from C+E division contribute YourWeather App. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/zh-cn\/store\/app\/\u5c0f\u9c7c\u5929\u6c14\/555575de-1fc8-413e-8e74-ea4cde590e87\">WPhone-CN<\/a>;<a href=\"http:\/\/app.mi.com\/detail\/90832\"> Android-CN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/cn\/app\/xiao-yu-tian-qi\/id1025721118?l=en&amp;mt=8\">IOS<\/a>)\r\n\r\nWe also appreciate our partners like Stella Ye and Sandy Qi\u00a0(from Bing)\u00a0who made\u00a0Urban Air available on Bing Map\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cn.bing.com\/ditu\/\">http:\/\/cn.bing.com\/ditu\/<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThere are a few interns who have worked with us in the urban air project. We may not be able to list all of them here.\r\n\r\nYubiao Chen, Xuxu Chen, Hsun-Ping Hsieh, Furui Li, Zhenni Feng, Zhangqing Shang, Ruiyuan Li, Xiuwen Yi.\r\n\r\n<\/div>"}],"slides":[],"related-researchers":[],"msr_research_lab":[199560],"msr_impact_theme":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/171316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-project"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/171316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477522,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/171316\/revisions\/477522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=171316"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=171316"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=171316"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=171316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}