electricsheepafrica/africa-madagascar-cyclone-1001057

Madagascar: Cyclone - Tropical storm - Mar 2024

Publisher: WFP Advanced Disaster Analysis & Mapping · Source: HDX · License: cc-by-sa · Updated: 2025-11-24

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Abstract

ADAM ID: 1001057_8 Cyclone (tropical storm) during the period Mar 25 2024-Mar 28 2024 in Madagascar. It impacted 536830 people.

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on HDX on 2025-11-24. Geographic scope: MDG.

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Demographics and population
Unit of observation	Tabular records
Rows (total)	18
Columns	9 (4 numeric, 5 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	14 rows
Test split	3 rows
Geographic scope	MDG
Publisher	WFP Advanced Disaster Analysis & Mapping
HDX last updated	2025-11-24

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Variables

Demographic — pop_60_kmh (range 0.0–289020.0), pop_90_kmh (range 0.0–117262.0), pop_120_kmh (range 0.0–253736.0).

Identifier / Metadata — unnamed_0 (range 0.0–20.0), adm0_name (Madagascar), adm1_name (Diana, Sofia, Analanjirofo), adm2_name (Mananara-Avaratra, Maroantsetra, Befandriana Nord), esa_source (HDX) and 1 others.

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-madagascar-cyclone-1001057")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
unnamed_0	int64	0.0%	0.0 – 20.0 (mean 10.0556)
adm0_name	object	0.0%	Madagascar
adm1_name	object	0.0%	Diana, Sofia, Analanjirofo
adm2_name	object	0.0%	Mananara-Avaratra, Maroantsetra, Befandriana Nord
pop_60_kmh	int64	0.0%	0.0 – 289020.0 (mean 135056.8333)
pop_90_kmh	int64	0.0%	0.0 – 117262.0 (mean 15240.5556)
pop_120_kmh	int64	0.0%	0.0 – 253736.0 (mean 29823.8889)
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-06

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
unnamed_0	0.0	20.0	10.0556	10.0
pop_60_kmh	0.0	289020.0	135056.8333	115618.0
pop_90_kmh	0.0	117262.0	15240.5556	0.0
pop_120_kmh	0.0	253736.0	29823.8889	0.0

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Curation

Raw data was downloaded from HDX via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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Limitations

• Data originates from WFP Advanced Disaster Analysis & Mapping and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_madagascar_cyclone_1001057,
  title     = {Madagascar: Cyclone - Tropical storm - Mar 2024},
  author    = {WFP Advanced Disaster Analysis & Mapping},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/madagascar-cyclone-1001057},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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