Data Acquisition and Processing
The team obtained raw data from the World Health Organization (WHO) because the professor's data was considered "dirty" and needed cleaning.
Raw data is the original, uncleaned, and unfiltered data from the source.
The data used was the most recent, as of May 2024.
The team filtered the raw data to match the specific countries included in their sample.
The process involved going to the source (WHO), downloading raw data for each category, and then filtering it to match the countries of interest.