Projects

Solar Equity Index

The Solar Equity Index is an end-to-end data project created for Terra.do's Software for Climate course (Feb '26 Cohort) that identifies where rooftop solar investment would have the greatest equity impact across NYC and LA neighborhoods. A Python pipeline pulls from public APIs and datasets to score every census tract on solar potential, energy cost burden, and adoption gap (producing an index that is 94.6% independent of income).

The pipeline feeds directly into a Next.js web app that lets anyone explore all ~4.6k scored tracts via interactive map across both cities, drill into the three-signal breakdown behind any tract's score, and surface the top equity-priority neighborhoods through a filter that ensures high-opportunity tracts reflect genuine need (rather than just wealthy neighborhoods with good rooftops).

Demo: https://solarequityindex.netlify.app

Hex notebook: https://app.hex.tech/019c3142-a571-7001-b4d4-2e78d9bb0fb5/app/032vAGLT3QkeBrZNADLmto/latest

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/andytron/solar-equity-index

Presentation deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-oQKMQBmU5vadyNCOvxds2vSUGQRk7YGPr4wE4t7jPM/edit?usp=sharing