A study on Singapore haze
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Bing Tian Dai, 
Kasthuri Jayarajah, 
Ee-Peng Lim, Archan Misra, Shriguru NayakAuthors Info & Claims
Bing Tian Dai, Kasthuri Jayarajah, Ee-Peng Lim, Archan Misra, Shriguru NayakAuthors Info & ClaimsArticle No.: 44, Pages 1 - 6
Abstract
In 2015, Singaporean have experienced one of the worse air pollution crises in history. With datasets from a well-known photo sharing social network, we analyze how this haze affects Singaporean's daily life. We will share our preliminary results in this paper.
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