The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemic

This repository contains the data of the study "The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemic".

Epidemiological data

The folder zika_USA_weekly_cases_2016.zip contains weekly ZIKV incidence counts reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2016, by state. Data were extracted from reports made publicly available by the CDC at:  https://zenodo.org/record/584136#.Xk07-RNKjOQ 

Web news data

The file news_GDELT_data.csv.gz contains all news items extracted from the GDELT platform (https://www.gdeltproject.org/) matching TAX_DISEASE_ZIKA as a Theme, and United_States as a Location in the GDELT platform. 

TV closed captions

The file zika_TV_mentions_dataframe.csv contains all the TV news items of 2016 matching the word ``Zika"  in the TV News Archive https://archive.org/details/tv

Wikipedia pageview counts

Dataset 1: wikipedia_dataset1_zika_daily_pageview_usa.csv

Content of each line of the dataset: day, pageview_count

The dataset contains the daily number of pageview counts of 128 different Wikipedia pages related to the Zika virus (aggregated and summed to total) originated in the United States, from January 1st to December 31st, 2016.

Dataset 2: wikipedia_dataset2_zika_daily_pageview_bystate.zip

Content of each line of the dataset: day, pageview_count, state

The dataset contains the daily number of pageview counts of 128 different Wikipedia pages related to the Zika virus (aggregated and summed to total) originated in the United States, disaggregated by state, from January 1st to December 31st, 2016.

Dataset 3: wikipedia_dataset3_zika_pagecount_by_city.csv

Content of each line of the dataset: US_city, pageview_count_Zika,pageview_count_total

The dataset contains the total number of pageview counts of 128 different Wikipedia pages related to the Zika virus (pageview_count_Zika) originated in 788 cities (US_city) of the United States with a population larger than 40,000 in 2016.The dataset also contains the total number of pageview counts to all Wikipedia pages (all Wikipedia projects, pageview_count_total) originated in 788 cities (US_city) of the United States with a population larger than 40,000 in 2016."