electricsheepafrica/africa-central-african-republic-cholera-outbreaks-in-central-and-west-africa-2015-regional-9f9a8

Cholera Outbreaks in Central and West Africa : 2015 Regional Update | Africa (Central African Republic official open data)

18 rows - 1 Africa country - 2015 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Central African Republic as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Cholera Outbreaks in Central and West Africa : 2015 Regional Update
• Publisher: Regional Cholera Platform in West and Central Africa (inactive)
• Resource: wca_Cases2015_RegCholeraPlatformWCA.xlsx
• Format: XLSX
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
CAF	18	2015	2015	Central African Republic

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	fe1cbb23-fb92-4daf-8555-2862d289ae53:2015:0
country_iso3	category	ISO3 country code.	CAF
country_name	category	Country name.	Central African Republic
source_sheet	int64	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	2015
year	Int64	Observation year.	2015
iso3	string	Source column.	#country+code
country	string	Source column.	#country+name
week1	float64	Source column.	``
week2	float64	Source column.	``
week3	float64	Source column.	``
week4	float64	Source column.	``
week5	float64	Source column.	``
week6	float64	Source column.	``
week7	float64	Source column.	``
week8	float64	Source column.	``
week9	float64	Source column.	``
week10	float64	Source column.	``
week11	float64	Source column.	``
week12	float64	Source column.	``
week13	float64	Source column.	``
week14	float64	Source column.	``
week15	float64	Source column.	``
week16	float64	Source column.	``
week17	float64	Source column.	``
week18	float64	Source column.	``
week19	float64	Source column.	``
week20	float64	Source column.	``
week21	float64	Source column.	``
week22	float64	Source column.	``
week23	float64	Source column.	``
week24	float64	Source column.	``
week25	float64	Source column.	``
week26	float64	Source column.	``
week27	float64	Source column.	``
week28	float64	Source column.	``
week29	float64	Source column.	``
week30	float64	Source column.	``
week31	float64	Source column.	``
week32	float64	Source column.	``
week33	float64	Source column.	``
week34	float64	Source column.	``
week35	float64	Source column.	``
week36	float64	Source column.	``
week37	float64	Source column.	``
week38	float64	Source column.	``
week39	float64	Source column.	``
week40	float64	Source column.	``
week41	float64	Source column.	``
week42	float64	Source column.	``
week43	float64	Source column.	``
week44	float64	Source column.	``
week45	float64	Source column.	``
week46	float64	Source column.	``
week47	float64	Source column.	``
week48	float64	Source column.	``
week49	float64	Source column.	``
week50	float64	Source column.	``
week51	float64	Source column.	``
week52	float64	Source column.	``
week53	float64	Source column.	``
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2015
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2015
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2015
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	Regional Cholera Platform in West and Central Africa (inactive)
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Cholera Outbreaks in Central and West Africa : 2015 Regional Update
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	wca_Cases2015_RegCholeraPlatformWCA.xlsx
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	f1195ba1-ada6-4008-bc9a-aafecbf30503
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	fe1cbb23-fb92-4daf-8555-2862d289ae53
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/f1195ba1-ada6-4008-bc9a-aafecbf30503/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-14T23:28:30Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-central-african-republic-cholera-outbreaks-in-central-and-west-africa-2015-regional-9f9a8")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "CAF"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_central_african_republic_cholera_outbreaks_in_central_and_west_africa_201_2015,
  title        = {Cholera Outbreaks in Central and West Africa : 2015 Regional Update | Africa (Central African Republic official open data)},
  author       = {Regional Cholera Platform in West and Central Africa (inactive)},
  year         = {2015},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cholera-outbreaks-in-central-and-west-africa-2015-regional-update},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-central-african-republic-cholera-outbreaks-in-central-and-west-africa-2015-regional-9f9a8}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) Regional Cholera Platform in West and Central Africa (inactive). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-08-15 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/f1195ba1-ada6-4008-bc9a-aafecbf30503/resource/fe1cbb23-fb92-4daf-8555-2862d289ae53/download/wca_cases2015_regcholeraplatformwca.xlsx