electricsheepafrica/africa-south-africa-mpox-subnational-cases-2024

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annotations_creators:
- no-annotation
language_creators:
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language:
- en
license: cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- n<1K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- tabular-classification
task_ids: []
tags:
- africa
- humanitarian
- hdx
- electric-sheep-africa
- disease
- epidemics-outbreaks
- health
- hxl
- zaf
pretty_name: "South Africa - Mpox - Subnational cases : 2024"
dataset_info:
splits:
- name: train
num_examples: 20
- name: test
num_examples: 5
---

# South Africa - Mpox - Subnational cases : 2024

**Publisher:** HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa · **Source:** [HDX](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/south-africa-mpox-subnational-cases-2024) · **License:** `cc-by` · **Updated:** 2025-04-15

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## Abstract

Subnational 2024 Mpox data in South Africa - Infected (new cases, gender), Suspected cases, Deaths and Recoveries.

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on HDX on 2025-04-15. Geographic scope: **ZAF**.

*Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by [Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica).*

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## Dataset Characteristics

| | |
|---|---|
| **Domain** | Public health |
| **Unit of observation** | Tabular records |
| **Rows (total)** | 26 |
| **Columns** | 2 (0 numeric, 2 categorical, 0 datetime) |
| **Train split** | 20 rows |
| **Test split** | 5 rows |
| **Geographic scope** | ZAF |
| **Publisher** | HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa |
| **HDX last updated** | 2025-04-15 |

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## Variables

**Identifier / Metadata** — `esa_source` (HDX), `esa_processed` (2026-04-10).

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## Quick Start

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-south-africa-mpox-subnational-cases-2024")
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| `esa_source` | object | 0.0% | HDX |
| `esa_processed` | object | 0.0% | 2026-04-10 |

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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`. 3 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: `unnamed_0`, `unnamed_1`, `unnamed_2`. 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](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/south-africa-mpox-subnational-cases-2024) for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@dataset{hdx_africa_south_africa_mpox_subnational_cases_2024,
title = {South Africa - Mpox - Subnational cases : 2024},
author = {HERA - Humanitarian Emergency Response Africa},
year = {2025},
url = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/south-africa-mpox-subnational-cases-2024},
note = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}
```

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*[Electric Sheep Africa](https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica) — Africa's ML dataset infrastructure. Lagos, Nigeria.*