DS 02

This dataset consists of time series of reported cases of chickenpox at the county level between 2005 and 2015. The dataset can be used for both county-level and nation-level case count prediction. For this work, the counts per county were used. For the experiments involving the addition of rows, the Primary Source contained records from 2005 to 2013, and the last two years were treated as a new block of records. This is an example of a dataset whose variables record the same discrete magnitude (i.e., counts). Although it was not one of the most abundant datasets in terms of records, there was enough information to appreciate a yearly stationary component and relatively low noise levels.