karlamejia/Datasets

Includes epidemiological, environmental, and Google Trends data from various African countries # Datasets The datasets consist of epidemiological, environmental, geographic, and Google Trends data from various African countries. ## Epidemiological * The weekly influenza data for various countries were obtained from the WHO's FluNet database * The weekly cholera data for West and Central African countries were obtained from The Regional Cholera Platform in West and Central Africa via The Humanitarian Data Exchange * The yearly cholera data for South Africa, Nigeria, and Ghana were obtained from the Cholera Dynamics project at Infectious Disease Dynamics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health * The weekly measles data for Nigeria were obtained from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control * The yearly yellow fever data for various countries were obtained from the WHO. ## Geographic * The centroids of each country in the world were obtained from Harvard WorldMap. ## Environmental ## Google Trends * The weekly relative search interest data for influenza-related terms in South Africa were obtained from Google Trends ## Miscellaneous * The week numbers for each year were obtained from EpochConverter