Air quality is an important environmental component that has a significant influence on public health and well-being. Poor air quality can cause a variety of health problems, including respiratory ...and cardiovascular disorders. Therefore, there is a growing demand for air quality prediction tools to enable consumers and authorities to take the best decisions and to implement the necessary actions to reduce air pollution. The present paper describes an innovative application that uses machine learning techniques to supply to the users real-time air quality predictions made on past data from their unique location. The Scikit-learn Python package was used to implement five machine learning algorithms, including K-Nearest Neighbors, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, Support Vector Regression (SVR) and AdaBoost. To achieve robust model performance, compatibility with cross-validation approaches was evaluated. The obtained results indicate that these machine learning techniques are successful at forecasting air quality. The AdaBoost method emerged as the best accurate predictor after extensive investigation, closely followed by Gradient Boosting, SVR, Random Forest, and K-Nearest Neighbors. Furthermore, the investigation also focused on the adapted handling of inaccurate data and providing graphical visualizations to highlight the algorithm's efficacy.
The chronology was made - under the coordination of Raluca Alexandrescu and Cristian Preda - by the following students of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Bucharest: Cristian ...Bobu, Monica Botez, Octavian Lixeanu, Oana Logofătu, Mirela Mihai, Delia-Elena Mihart, Daniel Olteanu, Damiana Oțoiu, Loredana Popa Mare, Caterina Preda, Corina Rebegea, Mihaela Șușter, Mihaela Vieni, who used as sources the written press ("Adevărul", "Curentul", "Evenimentul Zilei", "Național", "România Libera" and the magazines "22" and the "Observatorul Cultural"), but also the TV news PRO TV, Antena 1 and Romania 1.