Nitrogen Fertilizer Project

This repo contains Python, R and SQL code and related data, instructions and discussion about data analysis for a Center for Public Integrity's investigation on the environmental, health and public safety consequences of nitrogen fertilziers.

Repos used for this project

• ghg
  This R notebook contains code and data to analyize global greenhouse gas emissions. Data is from Peter Trans at NOAA/2 Degrees Institute. CO2 data source descriptions are here. N2O data source descriptions are here and came directly from Trans.

• tx-fertilizer
  This Python notebook contains code to scrape TX State Chemist website to generate list of licensed fertilizer registrants.

Repos created but not used for the final version of this project

• FAOSTAT
  This Python notebook contains code and data to analyize UN Food and Agriculture Organization world fertilzier consumption data.

• mn-water
  This R notebook contains code and data to analyze Minnesota drinking water data to get a total number of customers exposed to nitrate contaminants.

• us-farm
  This R notebook contains code to analyze USDA data for farm and crop statistics.

• Joe Wertz
• Zachary Goldstein