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Collection of datasets for benchmarking and evaluating nowcasting models.

Installation

You can install via pak:

#install.packages("pak") # <- Uncomment if not installed
pak::pkg_install("epinowcast/nowcastdatasets")

Datasets

The following datasets are currently available:

data(package="nowcastdatasets")
Item Title
denguedat Dengue fever individual-level reporting data from Puerto Rico (USA) 1990-2010
ebola_sierraleone_2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Sierra Leone, 2014-2015
flu_h7n9_china_2013 Influenza A H7N9 outbreak in China, 2013
flusight USA’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Weekly Hospital Respiratory Data from FluSight, 2022 - 2026
germany_covid19_hosp Incident COVID-19 hospitalizations indexed by the date of positive test (reference date) and report date from Germany in 2021 and 2022.
measles_hagelloch_1861 Measles outbreak in Hagelloch, (Germany) 1861
mers_korea_2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) outbreak in South Korea, 2015
mpoxdat Mpox reporting data from the 2022 New York City (USA) outbreak
sari_bh Severe Acute Respiratory Illness data from Belo Horizonte (Brazil), 2020-2022

Data sets in nowcastdatasets

Contribute

See DATASETS.md for more information on how to contribute a dataset.