enbeghan/Change-point-analysis-of-African-government-policy-interventions-to-slow-the-spread-of-COVID19

# **Change point analysis to quantify the impact of African-government-policy-interventions-to-slow-the spread of COVID19** The main business objective of this challenge is to quantify the statistical significance of a public health policy introduced by African governments to slow down the spread of COVID-19. # **Situational Overview (Business Need)** The African Union has hired Batch3 LLC, a data science consultancy, to gather insights from across the continent on which public health and social measures are most effective at reducing the spread of Covid-19. The contract states that they are looking for evidence-based insights and they want to learn from existing initiatives launched a competition for all Young African Data Scientists to provide evidence-based insight on the effectiveness of recent public health government policies in the continent as it relates to Covid-19. The contract wants Batch 3 LLC to investigate the following countries to identify which interventions had the most effect on the country under study. The African Union is looking to the analysis results from Batch3 LLC to both drive policy recommendations to countries in Africa on how to deal with Covid-19 as well as to help countries prepare for future pandemics.