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Full COVID-19 Dataset for Nigeria Broken Down By State (CSV and PDF)

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I recently joined a small project to produce an easily accessible COVID-19 dataset for Nigeria broken down into states. It all began while I was trying to find COVID-19 datasets for Nigeria broken down state by state, I realised that the only one available was in PDF format which makes it more challenging to extract just the data. I pitched the idea of a small project to extract the datasets from the PDF to CSV files to the nice folks at NG44 and they graciously agreed to support the project with funds. To be clear, we are not generating the data per se. That credit goes to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC).  What we are mostly doing is manually extracting the data from the original PDF file format in which they are published into the more useful CSV file format and put it up on github. Github Link: Here's the shortlink to the dataset on github : https://bit.ly/covidnigeriadata About This dataset contains the official daily data for COVID-19 cases in Nig...