electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-changes-in-forest-land-cover-2007-and-2016-236e8609

Changes in Forest Land Cover 2007 and 2016 | Africa (MDPA)

70 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2008-2017 - 1 indicator - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 70 rows from MDPA, covering Changes in Forest Land Cover 2007 and 2016. It is published as ML-ready Parquet with consistent Hugging Face metadata, source provenance, and analysis-friendly loading examples.

What This Dataset Measures

Agriculture datasets help analysts examine production, prices, inputs, land use, food systems, and rural economic activity.

Source-provided context: Changes in forest land cover, 2007 and 2016 from Environment Digest Table 1.24

How To Read This Dataset

• One row means: one indicator observation for one geography, time period, and optional source dimensions.
• Primary geography column: country_iso3.
• Best time column: year.
• Time coverage basis: year.
• Recommended join keys: country_iso3, year, indicator_id.

Coverage

Dimension	Value
Rows	70
Countries/areas	1
First period	2008
Last period	2017
Indicators	1
Columns	20
Source format	XLSX

Geographic Coverage

Top areas shown below, sorted by row count when available:

Area	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MU	70	2008	2017	Mauritius

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• changes-in-forest-land-cover-2007-and-2016-236e8609 - Changes in forest land cover, 2007 and 2016(source_units_unspecified)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable source or Electric Sheep Africa indicator identifier.	changes-in-forest-land-cover-2007-and-2016-236e8609
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	Changes in forest land cover, 2007 and 2016
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country or area code.	MU
source_sheet	string	Source column from the original resource.	Sheet1
country_name	string	Country or area name.	Mauritius
year	int64	Observation year.	2008
value	double	Numeric observation value.	9782.0
unit	string	Measurement unit, when supplied by the source.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_type_of_plant	string	Source dimension retained during long-form normalization.	Soft wood
source_period_start_year	int64	Start year inferred from source metadata.	2008
source_period_end_year	int64	End year inferred from source metadata.	2017
source_period_label	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source column from the original resource.	2008-2017
source_provider	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Publishing organization.	MDPA
source_dataset	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source dataset or package title.	Changes in forest land cover, 2007 and 2016
source_resource	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	Table-1.24-Changes-in-forest-land-cover-2008-and-2017.xlsx
source_package_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source package identifier.	f499ce34-1769-4573-88e9-991d959784a8
source_resource_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource identifier.	b8faa794-4e23-44a0-8906-19d819120b45
source_url	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Original source URL or download URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/f499ce34-1769-4573-88e9-991d959784a8/r...
license_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source license identifier.	CC-BY-SA-4.0
retrieved_at	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	UTC source retrieval timestamp from the Electric Sheep Africa pipeline.	2026-08-08T16:26:20Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-changes-in-forest-land-cover-2007-and-2016-236e8609")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Inspect Columns

print(df.info())
print(df.head())

Filter By Geography

if "country_iso3" in df.columns:
    sample = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MU"]

Time-Series Pattern

if "value" in df.columns and "year" in df.columns:
    trend = df.sort_values("year")

Pivot For Analysis

if {"indicator_id", "year", "value"}.issubset(df.columns):
    matrix = df.pivot_table(index="year", columns="indicator_id", values="value")
    print(matrix.tail())

Data Quality Notes

• Canonical time field: year.
• Missing values are preserved rather than silently imputed.
• Column names are standardized for machine use; source meanings are preserved where known.
• Always confirm source methodology, units, and collection definitions before policy, production, or redistribution-sensitive use.

Source And Provenance

• Source: MDPA
• Publisher: MDPA
• Portal: https://data.govmu.org
• Resource: Table-1.24-Changes-in-forest-land-cover-2008-and-2017.xlsx
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Retrieved/generated: 2026-08-08T16:44:56Z
• Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-changes-in-forest-land-cover-2007-and-2016-236e8609

Transformations Applied

• Converted the source table to Parquet for efficient analytics and ML workflows.
• Added or preserved source provenance columns where available.
• Standardized README metadata, dataset loading configuration, schema documentation, and citation format.
• Preserved source-reported values without analytical imputation.

Suggested Analyses

• Track production or price movements
• Compare regions or commodities
• Join with climate and trade data
• Build time-series views and period-over-period comparisons
• Pivot to geography x period or indicator x period matrices
• Check missingness before modeling
• Use country_iso3 as the safest geography join key when present

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mauritius_changes_in_forest_land_cover_2007_and_2016_236e8609_2017,
  title        = {Changes in Forest Land Cover 2007 and 2016 | Africa (MDPA)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2017},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/changes-forest-land-cover-2007-and-2016},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-changes-in-forest-land-cover-2007-and-2016-236e8609}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Original data is published by MDPA. Electric Sheep Africa engineering standardizes the data for discovery, loading, and analysis on Hugging Face. Cite both the original source and this ML-ready dataset when used.

About Electric Sheep Africa

Electric Sheep Africa publishes ML-ready African public datasets on Hugging Face.

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Provenance: README standardized 2026-08-11 by the Electric Sheep Africa README system. Source URL: https://data.govmu.org/dataset/changes-forest-land-cover-2007-and-2016