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Welcome to the Magic Box wiki!

Magic Box serves various kinds of data, aggregated by administrative boundaries, that the data science team finds useful.

Currently available:

• Population
• Mosquito prevalence
• Epi case data

With these data sources you can create things like:

• You can fetch data from the public API here
• Read an article about it.
• Install the API locally. (It comes with test data, but you can continue with the instructions below to get most of the same data we use.)

Get the tools we use to download and aggregate the data

• Download shapefiles from gadm.org

• Import shapefiles to postgres

• Latitude longitude coordinates to admin ID server

• Aggregate worldpop.org.uk population by admin

• Aggregate mosquito prevalence admin

• Download Zika case data from Paho and aggregate by ISO week