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Welcome to the Magic Box wiki!

Magic Box serves various kinds of data aggregated by administrative boundaries.

Currently available:

• Population
• Mosquito prevalence (aegypti and albopictus)
• Zika case data (weekly) for the Americas from Paho

Begin here by installing the API. It comes with test data, but you can continue with the instructions below to get most of the same data we use.

Download shapefiles from gadm.org

Import shapefiles to postgres

Aggregate population rasters by administrative boundaries

Downloads, imports, and aggregates country specific population rasters from worldpop.

Get zika cases from Paho

Calculate risk for zika

Mobility

aggregate_airport_mobility_by_admin