electricsheepafrica/africa-climate-mali

HDX HAPI Data for Mali

Publisher: HDX Humanitarian API Data · Source: HDX · License: hdx-other · Updated: 2026-02-18

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Abstract

This dataset contains data obtained from the HDX Humanitarian API (HDX HAPI), which provides standardized humanitarian indicators designed for seamless interoperability from multiple sources. The data facilitates automated workflows and visualizations to support humanitarian decision making. For more information, please see the HDX HAPI landing page and documentation.

Each row in this dataset represents subnational administrative unit observations. Temporal coverage is indicated by the reference_period_start, reference_period_end column(s). Geographic scope: MLI.

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

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Food security and nutrition
Unit of observation	Subnational administrative unit observations
Rows (total)	3,394
Columns	18 (3 numeric, 11 categorical, 2 datetime)
Train split	2,715 rows
Test split	678 rows
Geographic scope	MLI
Publisher	HDX Humanitarian API Data
HDX last updated	2026-02-18

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Variables

Geographic — location_code (MLI), provider_admin1_name (Mopti, Ségou, Tombouctou), provider_admin2_name (Bandiagara, Bamako, Abeibara), admin1_code (ML05, ML04, ML06), admin1_name (Mopti, Segou, Timbuktu) and 5 others.

Temporal — reference_period_start, reference_period_end.

Identifier / Metadata — esa_source (HDX), esa_processed.

Other — has_hrp, in_gho, operation (Mali Conflict), reporting_round (range 1.0–77.0).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-climate-mali")
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
location_code	object	0.0%	MLI
has_hrp	bool	0.0%
in_gho	bool	0.0%
provider_admin1_name	object	2.3%	Mopti, Ségou, Tombouctou
provider_admin2_name	object	23.0%	Bandiagara, Bamako, Abeibara
admin1_code	object	2.3%	ML05, ML04, ML06
admin1_name	object	2.3%	Mopti, Segou, Timbuktu
admin2_code	object	23.0%	ML0501, ML0901, ML0801
admin2_name	object	23.0%	Mopti, Taoudenni, Kidal
admin_level	int64	0.0%	0.0 – 2.0 (mean 1.7469)
operation	object	0.0%	Mali Conflict
assessment_type	object	0.0%	BA
population	int64	0.0%	1.0 – 422620.0 (mean 9622.7174)
reporting_round	int64	0.0%	1.0 – 77.0 (mean 41.8176)
reference_period_start	datetime64[ns]	0.0%
reference_period_end	datetime64[ns]	0.0%
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
admin_level	0.0	2.0	1.7469	2.0
population	1.0	422620.0	9622.7174	1219.0
reporting_round	1.0	77.0	41.8176	43.0

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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. 2 column(s) were cast from string to numeric or datetime based on parse-success rate (>85% threshold). 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 HDX Humanitarian API Data and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• The following columns have >20% missing values and should be treated with caution in modelling: provider_admin2_name, admin2_code, admin2_name.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{hdx_africa_climate_mali,
  title     = {HDX HAPI Data for Mali},
  author    = {HDX Humanitarian API Data},
  year      = {2026},
  url       = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/hdx-hapi-mli},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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