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.