HackEbola (with Data!)

Xiangyu Li   •   over 11 years ago

Most food price data is missing during the outbreak

We generate the food price for every month in year 2014. There are only 6 regions in the food price data that overlaps with the time series data (data 2). The food price is very stable. We only observed one spike in meat price in one region at the time when ebola outbreaks. And unfortunately the price data AFTER the outbreak for most regions is missing(https://www.dropbox.com/s/nbjb6wp551ln9y4/table.csv?dl=0).

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  Finale Doshi-Velez Manager   •   over 11 years ago

  Thanks for the sleuthing -- I think seeing a plot that shows prices have been stable in those areas/noting the limitations is still something for people to know (both so they can see whatever patterns are there and so they can see the need for more data).

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  Daniel Lasry   •   over 11 years ago

  Hi, In the presentation below there is a projection on how the food prices may increase due to the Ebola outbreak.

  http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/ena/wfp268882.pdf

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  Daniel Lasry   •   over 11 years ago

  Hi,

  There are more food prices in the second tab of the excels of the below link.

  As me if you have any question!
  Thanks

  http://vam.wfp.org/sites/mvam_monitoring/index.html

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  Xiangyu Li   •   over 11 years ago

  Thank you for the comments.

  I just generated 6 figures showing the food price change.

  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7425tmisb2tyr6e/AACHNkbaZ-zkoyoSL3WcfJTYa?dl=0

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