I’ve started another CodeOcean project related to open-FF. Whereas open-FF creates research-grade data sets from the FracFocus website, query-FF lets any user explore those data without being  a programmer.  While it may not be as easy as a point-and-click operation, users can write small scripts based on examples in the documentation to build custom data sets and to perform basic explorations.

Here is a simple example:

This set of commands, executed directly in the CodeOcean environment, makes a data set for 2-butoxy-ethanol for fracking events in Ohio for the years 2016-18.

Furthermore, because the CodeOcean environment is a full-blown anaconda/python/pandas environment, the user can write code directly to access the intricacies of the data without going through all the trouble of setting up their own software environment.

Hopefully, this will make the fracking chemical data accessible to many more people.