electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-national-fire-outbreaks-2000-2012-ef39ee41

National Fire Outbreaks 2000 2012 | Africa (Ghana Open Data)

255 rows - 1 Africa country/area - 2005 - source table - Engineered by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 255 rows from Ghana Open Data, covering National Fire Outbreaks 2000 2012. It is published as ML-ready Parquet with consistent Hugging Face metadata, source provenance, and analysis-friendly loading examples.

What This Dataset Measures

Official statistics datasets help analysts inspect public data as published by governments, national statistical systems, and regional data portals.

Source-provided context: This resource contains categories of fire outbreak segregated into cost of salvage, damage, deaths, injuries etc. across regions in Ghana for the year 2005

How To Read This Dataset

• One row means: one source record from the original tabular resource, with Electric Sheep Africa provenance columns added where available.
• Primary geography column: country_iso3.
• Best time column: year.
• Time coverage basis: year.
• Recommended join keys: country_iso3 where available plus source-specific keys.

Coverage

Dimension	Value
Rows	255
Countries/areas	1
First period	2005
Last period	2005
Indicators	0
Columns	16
Source format	CSV

Geographic Coverage

Top areas shown below, sorted by row count when available:

Area	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
GHA	255	2005	2005	Ghana

Indicators, Variables, Or Resource Contents

• This repo preserves one source tabular resource with its usable columns kept together.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier assigned during Electric Sheep Africa engineering.	1d29a9d3-d56e-46f5-bc9e-798e1729c6ab:0
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country or area code.	GHA
country_name	string	Country or area name.	Ghana
year	int64	Observation year.	2005
doctype_html_public_w3c_dtd_xhtml_rdfa_1_0_en	string	Source column from the original resource.	"https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd">
source_period_start_year	int64	Start year inferred from source metadata.	2005
source_period_end_year	int64	End year inferred from source metadata.	2005
source_period_label	string	Source column from the original resource.	2005
source_provider	string	Publishing organization.	Official government open data portal
source_dataset	string	Source dataset or package title.	National Fire Outbreaks 2000 - 2012
source_resource	string	Source resource title, table name, or file name.	National Fire Outbreak Categories for the Year 2005
source_package_id	string	Source package identifier.	de1e0f5d-a378-4cc5-bd14-3c03b2a0e28e
source_resource_id	string	Source resource identifier.	1d29a9d3-d56e-46f5-bc9e-798e1729c6ab
source_url	string	Original source URL or download URL.	http://data.gov.gh/sites/default/files/NATIONAL%20FIRE%20OUTBREAK%20C...
license_id	string	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	string	UTC source retrieval timestamp from the Electric Sheep Africa pipeline.	2026-07-18T20:11:31Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-national-fire-outbreaks-2000-2012-ef39ee41")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Inspect Columns

print(df.info())
print(df.head())

Filter By Geography

if "country_iso3" in df.columns:
    sample = df[df["country_iso3"] == "GHA"]

Time-Series Pattern

if "value" in df.columns and "year" in df.columns:
    trend = df.sort_values("year")

Pivot For Analysis

if {"indicator_id", "year", "value"}.issubset(df.columns):
    matrix = df.pivot_table(index="year", columns="indicator_id", values="value")
    print(matrix.tail())

Data Quality Notes

• Canonical time field: year.
• Missing values are preserved rather than silently imputed.
• Column names are standardized for machine use; source meanings are preserved where known.
• Always confirm source methodology, units, and collection definitions before policy, production, or redistribution-sensitive use.

Source And Provenance

• Source: Ghana Open Data
• Publisher: Ghana official open data portal
• Portal: http://data.gov.gh
• Resource: National Fire Outbreak Categories for the Year 2005
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Retrieved/generated: 2026-07-18T20:19:40Z
• Hugging Face repo: electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-national-fire-outbreaks-2000-2012-ef39ee41

Transformations Applied

• Converted the source table to Parquet for efficient analytics and ML workflows.
• Added or preserved source provenance columns where available.
• Standardized README metadata, dataset loading configuration, schema documentation, and citation format.
• Preserved source-reported values without analytical imputation.

Suggested Analyses

• Profile the distribution of values
• Compare categories or geographies
• Join with complementary public datasets
• Build time-series views and period-over-period comparisons
• Check missingness before modeling
• Use country_iso3 as the safest geography join key when present

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_ghana_national_fire_outbreaks_2000_2012_ef39ee41_2005,
  title        = {National Fire Outbreaks 2000 2012 | Africa (Ghana Open Data)},
  author       = {Ghana official open data portal},
  year         = {2005},
  url          = {http://data.gov.gh/dataset/national-fire-outbreaks-2000-2012},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face Datasets, engineered by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ghana-national-fire-outbreaks-2000-2012-ef39ee41}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data is published by Ghana official open data portal. Electric Sheep Africa engineering standardizes the data for discovery, loading, and analysis on Hugging Face. Cite both the original source and this ML-ready dataset when used.

About Electric Sheep Africa

Electric Sheep Africa publishes ML-ready African public datasets on Hugging Face.

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Provenance: README standardized 2026-08-11 by the Electric Sheep Africa README system. Source URL: http://data.gov.gh/dataset/national-fire-outbreaks-2000-2012