Office of Environmental

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TRI.Net:
The Power to Analyze TRI

TRI National Training Conference

April 1, 2009
TRI.NET focus
• Customer – TRIPD

• Audience
– EPA, states, Federal Agencies
– Education
– Researchers
– Public (power users)
Why TRI.NET?
• Analysis tool vs access tool
– ad hoc queries
– Rapid response
– Highly-interactive environment
– Integration with mapping

• Extensive query capacity

• Innovative features
– My TRI neighborhood
– Auto-updating for data

• TRI value added data layers

What is TRI.NET?
• Windows .Net Data Engine

• Best-of-Breed Application (like GE)

• Platforms – XP, Vista, Linux, OSX with VMware

• Integrated with web 2.0 Mapping Technologies

• Auto-Updating of Data over web

 Local Network Firewall

User Desktop
TRI.NET NCC/epapub
application via H
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Firewall
TP
Data
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Upda lication TRI.NET
tes Yearly Updates

Virtual Earth

Google Earth
TRI.NET Application pulls in
additional information over the web.
Google Maps
What it does
• Analysis Tool
• Engine + Enterprise Data = Ad hoc Queries! + Maps

• Analysis -- series of rapid, Ad Hoc queries to answer questions

• * Ex Ad Hoc:
• what zip has most tri activity?
• what's going on in My Neighborhood?
• releases in high minority & low income communities
• high polluters at the border

• FAST response (local data)

• LARGE queries (1.5 M rows)
• COMPLETE set (query on everything - vs partial)
Innovations
• Auto-Update

• My TRI Neighborhood

• Web 2.0 Mashups - Virtual Earth, Google Maps, Google Earth

• Powerful Ad Hoc Capability

• TRI value added data layers

– Environmental Justice
– US/Mexico Border
– Tribal Lands

• Integration
– Excel
– Mapping
• Contact
Will Smith
Smith.will@epa.gov

Temporary site:
• http://athena.was.epa.gov/tridataengine/index.html