electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-total-hours-of-sunshine-by-region-and-station-in-mauritius-19d4f8b0

Total Hours of Sunshine by Region and Station in Mauritius | Africa (MDPA)

136 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2005-2020 - source table - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 136 rows from MDPA, covering Total Hours of Sunshine by Region and Station in Mauritius. It is published as ML-ready Parquet with consistent Hugging Face metadata, source provenance, and analysis-friendly loading examples.

What This Dataset Measures

Climate and environment datasets help analysts study exposure, resource conditions, environmental pressure, and climate-related trends.

Source-provided context: Dataset shows the Total Hours of Sunshine by Region and Station in Mauritius as from January 2005 to December 2020.

How To Read This Dataset

• One row means: one source record from the original tabular resource, with Electric Sheep Africa provenance columns added where available.
• Primary geography column: country_iso3.
• Best time column: year.
• Time coverage basis: year.
• Recommended join keys: country_iso3 where available plus source-specific keys.

Coverage

Dimension	Value
Rows	136
Countries/areas	1
First period	2005
Last period	2020
Indicators	0
Columns	29
Source format	XLS

Geographic Coverage

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

Area	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MU	136	2005	2020	Mauritius

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• This repo preserves one source tabular resource with its usable columns kept together.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier assigned during Electric Sheep Africa engineering.	37fe3c2f-5da0-4211-8bcd-969c82808e75:2005-2015:0
country_iso3	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	ISO3 country or area code.	MU
country_name	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Country or area name.	Mauritius
source_sheet	string	Source column from the original resource.	2005-2015
year	string	Observation year.	2005
jan	double	Source column from the original resource.	278.5
feb	double	Source column from the original resource.	143.3
mar	double	Source column from the original resource.	174.7
apr	double	Source column from the original resource.	270.5
may	double	Source column from the original resource.	212.1
jun	double	Source column from the original resource.	256.2
jul	double	Source column from the original resource.	208.5
aug	double	Source column from the original resource.	267.1
sep	double	Source column from the original resource.	240.7
oct	double	Source column from the original resource.	256.6
nov	double	Source column from the original resource.	239.9
dec	double	Source column from the original resource.	274.5
yearly_total	double	Source column from the original resource.	2822.6
source_period_start_year	int64	Start year inferred from source metadata.	2005
source_period_end_year	int64	End year inferred from source metadata.	2020
source_period_label	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source column from the original resource.	2005-2020
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.	Total Hours of Sunshine by Region and Station in Mauritius
source_resource	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	Source-File.xls
source_package_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source package identifier.	3b230c66-6dd7-4fec-8acd-c0c7776dc3ab
source_resource_id	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Source resource identifier.	37fe3c2f-5da0-4211-8bcd-969c82808e75
source_url	dictionary<values=string, indices=int8, ordered=0>	Original source URL or download URL.	https://data.govmu.org/dataset/3b230c66-6dd7-4fec-8acd-c0c7776dc3ab/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-total-hours-of-sunshine-by-region-and-station-in-mauritius-19d4f8b0")
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: Source-File.xls
• License: CC BY-SA 4.0
• Retrieved/generated: 2026-08-08T17:11:47Z
• Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-total-hours-of-sunshine-by-region-and-station-in-mauritius-19d4f8b0

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

• Analyze seasonal or annual patterns
• Join with agriculture or health data
• Map geographic exposure
• Build time-series views and period-over-period comparisons
• Check missingness before modeling
• Use country_iso3 as the safest geography join key when present

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mauritius_total_hours_of_sunshine_by_region_and_station_in_mauritius_19d4_2020,
  title        = {Total Hours of Sunshine by Region and Station in Mauritius | Africa (MDPA)},
  author       = {MDPA},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://data.govmu.org/dataset/total-hours-sunshine-region-and-station-mauritius},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mauritius-total-hours-of-sunshine-by-region-and-station-in-mauritius-19d4f8b0}}
}

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/total-hours-sunshine-region-and-station-mauritius