IST02-IST03 JSE-Eskom Infrastructure-Coupled Financial Network Dataset

Hypergraph edge-weight time series linking 87 JSE-listed securities to 34 Eskom transmission grid nodes (January 2015 to December 2025, T=2870 trading days, 340 hyperedges). Supports IST-02 CASCADEnt/VORTEX and IST-03 PHYSAN research series by Prof. N.D. Moroke, North-West University, South Africa.

This dataset supports the paper "Infrastructure-Induced Geometric Compression in an Emerging Financial Market" (Moroke, 2026, Emerging Markets Review, under review).

Contents:- eskom_stages_2015_2026.csv: Daily peak load-shedding stage   (integer 0–6) for South Africa, 1 January 2015 to 30 April 2026.   Sources: Eskom published schedules, CSIR energy reports,   EskomSePush archive.- eskom_stages_trading_days.csv: Business-day version of the above,   forward-filled for weekends and public holidays.- jse_panel.csv: Daily adjusted closing prices for 15 JSE Top40   securities, January 2015 to April 2026 (Yahoo Finance).- shredi_combined.csv: Final merged analysis dataset — 7 asset   return series plus Eskom stage and regime classification,   N=2,838 trading days.- shredi_7asset_pipeline.py: Complete reproducible Python pipeline   producing all results in the paper.- shredi_all_results.json: All numerical results from pipeline.- build_eskom_zenodo.py: Script to rebuild the Eskom stage series   from documented public record.