This repository contains the following:

• country_timeseries.json -- a JSON file containing case and death data by country during the 2014 Ebola epidemic. This data is copied from https://github.com/cmrivers/ebola/tree/master/data_products
• plot_bycountry.py -- a Python script file which processes and visualizes this JSON file
• cases_bycountry.png and cases_bycountry.pdf -- the resulting figure from the above script.
• cases_bycountry_small.png -- small version for the README in this repository.
• Plague_Commission_Report_Excerpt.pdf is a selected excerpt of the 1908 Plague Commission report which students are asked to read. In this, the epidemiology of the plague in Colonial India is reported on. This would, in part, inspire the 1927 Kermack and McKendrick paper introducing an SIR model for epidemics.

To run the python script successfully, one needs a modern version of Python 3 with the following packages installed:

• pandas
• numpy
• matplotlib
• json
• datetime

Depending on your environment (e.g. conda) most of these packages may come installed by default (especially the last two).