beansrowning / drc_ebola_2019

Visualization and modelling of 2018-2019 DRC Ebola data

2019 DRC Ebola analysis

Sean Browning

What?

Random visualizations and analysis work on the current DRC Ebola outbreak.

Dependencies

All data pulled from HDX using rhdx

• DRC case data
• DRC shape file
• DRC Zone de Sante denominator data

All packages for vis and modelling are handled via packrat

• Running R in project root folder should initialize packrat install
• run packrat::restore() to install all packages to the local directory

Updating case counts

Updating the CSVs and shape file is fully automated through R/update_ebola_counts.R

Rscript R/update_ebola_counts.R

drc_ebola_2019's Issues

Switch to WHO Situation reports breaks counts

Relevant commits

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Situation

The DRC Ministry of Health appears to have ceased updates of cases/deaths in the country, and the data set has now switched to using WHO Situation Reports as a basis.

Likely due to formatting (though perhaps due to conflicting reports as well), raw and cumulative case and death counts are no longer accurately reflected starting in Aug 2019.

Since this marks one year since the beginning of the data, rolling over the data could be an option, but that creates an issue with modelling.

More investigation required.