Description

Context This data set was published by the National Epidemiology unit under the Ministry of Health from the Government of the island of Jamaica in the Caribbean. It is accessible to the public. The release date was June 9, 2016 and was last modified May 21, 2018. Content The data set describes the number of fever cases recorded per epidemiology week and classified based on the year and the age range of patients. Acknowledgements This information can be found freely on the [Jamaican Open Data Portal][1]. Inspiration Is there a particular year that was atypical? Is there a particular season of each year that fever cases increase? Is there a correlation between the age range and number of fever cases recorded? What else outside of the obvious can be inferred from the data set? [1]: http://data.gov.jm/dataset/epidemiological-statistics/resource/8db3a91e-b1d1-425e-9499-d78c656571e3#%7Bview-graph:%7BgraphOptions:%7Bhooks:%7BprocessOffset:%7B%7D,bindEvents:%7B%7D%7D%7D%7D,graphOptions:%7Bhooks:%7BprocessOffset:%7B%7D,bindEvents:%7B%7D%7D%7D%7D