India’s Airpocalypse: A Story of Diwali Peaks, Missing Data and Chart Stubble | Today’s news

The darkness of data

Soon after Diwali lights up the country, a spike in air pollution leads to a severe data blackout. A coin analysis of 15-minute interval PM2.5 data for the 24 hours between 12:00 November 8 and 12:00 November 9 shows that only 4,439 of the 5,664 data points were available, representing 22% of missing data, compared to 14% three years ago.