electricsheepafrica/africa-niger-data-for-the-covid-19-data-explorer-61b2fe68

Data for the Covid-19 Data Explorer | Africa (Niger official open data)

135 rows - 1 Africa country - not-applicable - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Niger 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: Data for the Covid-19 Data Explorer
• Publisher: HDX
• Resource: Covid-19 Data Explorer - sources
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
NER	135	n/a	n/a	Niger

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.	0c02e549-09d7-48cb-abfc-55d965675b86:0
country_iso3	category	ISO3 country code.	NER
country_name	category	Country name.	Niger
indicator	string	Source column.	#indicator+name
date	string	Observation date.	#date
source	string	Source column.	#meta+source
url	string	Source column.	#meta+url
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	HDX
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Data for the Covid-19 Data Explorer
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	Covid-19 Data Explorer - sources
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	548470a1-998b-4575-82d5-18217653bde5
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	0c02e549-09d7-48cb-abfc-55d965675b86
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT9_g7AItbqJwDkPi55VyVhq
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-14T00:35:21Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-niger-data-for-the-covid-19-data-explorer-61b2fe68")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "NER"]

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_niger_data_for_the_covid_19_data_explorer_61b2fe68_2026,
  title        = {Data for the Covid-19 Data Explorer | Africa (Niger official open data)},
  author       = {HDX},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/covid-19-data-visual-inputs},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-niger-data-for-the-covid-19-data-explorer-61b2fe68}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) HDX. 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 2026-08-14 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT9_g7AItbqJwDkPi55VyVhqOdB81c3FePhqAoFlIL9160mxqtqg-OofaoTZtdq39BATa37PYQ4813k/pub?gid=1837381168&single=true&output=csv