electricsheepafrica/africa-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-ebola-2021-cumulative-cases-national

Democratic Republic of the Congo : Ebola (2021) Cumulative cases (national)

Publisher: HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa · Source: HDX · License: cc-by · Updated: 2025-04-10

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Abstract

National dataset of Ebola in Guinea (2021) - infections, recoveries, deaths, hospitalized, active cases, contact cases and gender data (if available). This dataset is a Pivot Table of the subnational data available on our HDX page.

Gender data is not available anymore. The architecture of this dataset might change over time, to remove gender data. If you have any information about Ebola in DRC, please let us know at org.hera@gmail.com. Update frequency : when new data is available.

Each row in this dataset represents country-level aggregates. Data was last updated on HDX on 2025-04-10. Geographic scope: COD.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Public health
Unit of observation	Country-level aggregates
Rows (total)	22
Columns	3 (0 numeric, 3 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	17 rows
Test split	4 rows
Geographic scope	COD
Publisher	HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa
HDX last updated	2025-04-10

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Variables

Geographic — date_iso_3_country_ebola_confirmed_case_ebola_suspected_case_women_men_gender_not_specified_contact_cases_hospitalized_ebola_deaths_probable_ebola_deaths_deaths_women_deaths_men_deaths_gender_not_specified_recoveries_recoveries_women_recoveries_men_recoveries_gender_not_specified_vaccinated (2021-02-06;COD;Republic Democratic of the Congo;1;0;1;0;0;70;0;1;0;1;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;;;;;;, 2021-02-08;COD;Republic Democratic of the Congo;0;0;0;0;0;47;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;;;;;;, CUMULATIVE;COD;Republic Democratic of the Congo;11;1;3;1;8;345;6;4;1;2;0;2;2;1;0;1;1475;;;;;;).

Identifier / Metadata — esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-05).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-ebola-2021-cumulative-cases-national")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
date_iso_3_country_ebola_confirmed_case_ebola_suspected_case_women_men_gender_not_specified_contact_cases_hospitalized_ebola_deaths_probable_ebola_deaths_deaths_women_deaths_men_deaths_gender_not_specified_recoveries_recoveries_women_recoveries_men_recoveries_gender_not_specified_vaccinated	object	0.0%	2021-02-06;COD;Republic Democratic of the Congo;1;0;1;0;0;70;0;1;0;1;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;;;;;;, 2021-02-08;COD;Republic Democratic of the Congo;0;0;0;0;0;47;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;0;;;;;;, CUMULATIVE;COD;Republic Democratic of the Congo;11;1;3;1;8;345;6;4;1;2;0;2;2;1;0;1;1475;;;;;;
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-05

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
No numeric columns.

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Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. 1 exact duplicate rows were removed. The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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Limitations

• Data originates from HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_democratic_republic_of_the_congo_ebola_2021_cumulative_cases_national,
  title     = {Democratic Republic of the Congo : Ebola (2021) Cumulative cases (national)},
  author    = {HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-ebola-2021-cumulative-cases-national},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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