I decided to do an exporatory analysis of the Covid-19 provided by WHO. I focused on Africa for this particuar analysis, and it was an exciting experience and learning process for me.
# COVID-19-Exploratory-Data-Analysis of African Countries
## by Kola Ademola
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## INTRODUCTION
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I decided to do an exporatory analysis of the Covid-19 provided by WHO.
I focused on Africa for this particuar analysis, and it was an exciting experience and learning process for me.
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## DATA SOURCING
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The dataset was gotten from the WHO official website and my analysis was done with python using jupyter notebook
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## SKILLS DEMONSTRATED & DATA TRANSFORMATION
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I used python for **data cleaning & data wrangling** before exporting the clean data to Power BI for visualizations.
Libraries used for cleaning in Python;
___LIBRARIES USED___
___FILTERED THE DATA FOR JUST AFRICAN COUNTRIES___
___FEATURE ENGINEERED SOME NEW COLUMNS NECCESARY FOR MY ANALYSIS___
___EXPORTING DATASET TO POWER BI___
___DAX / MEASURES CREATED___
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## DATA MODELLING
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* NO modelling was done in Power BI because our data is all in a single table
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## ANALYSIS & VISUALIZATIONS
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This analysis contains just one report or dashboard page;
___DASHBOARD___
___View Full Interactive Report/Dashboard Here.___
##### From the dashboard we can see that;
* 50 African countries were used for this analysis..
* **10 million** recorded cases.
* **175,000+** deaths were recorded sadly.
* Africa was affected more between **January 2021** - **January 2022**
___Top 5 affected countries.___
* With **South Africa** recording the highest number of cases and fatalities.
* By **2023** there has been a significant decline in the number of cases and fatalities, but **Zimbabwe** in this case is recording more deaths.
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## CONCLUSIONS & RECCOMMENDATIONS
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This was a very simple analysis and it helped me gain insight on how COVID-19 has affected the continent because I have always wanted to know how much it affected Africa as compared to other continents, with this I can say not so much but every life is important and my deepest condolonce to all those affected.
___RECCOMMENDATION___ …