electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-mali-views-conflict-forecasts-78e1fa7e

Mali - VIEWS conflict forecasts | Africa (Mali official open data)

36 rows - 1 Africa country - 2026-2027 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official CSV resource from Mali as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: Mali - VIEWS conflict forecasts
• Publisher: Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System
• Resource: mli-views-conflict-forecasts-country-month.csv
• Format: CSV
• License: CC BY-SA
• Packaging mode: tabular_resource

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MLI	36	2026	2027	Mali

Indicators or Resource Contents

• This source file is packaged as a normalized tabular resource.

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
source_record_id	string	Stable row identifier for tabular resources.	2157d112-88d8-4e65-9674-37290864712d:0
country_iso3	category	ISO3 country code.	MLI
country_name	category	Country name.	Mali
country_id	int64	Source column.	50
month_id	int64	Source column.	559
name	string	Source column.	Mali
gwcode	int64	Source column.	432
isoab	string	Source column.	MLI
year	int64	Observation year.	2026
month	int64	Source column.	7
main_mean	float64	Source column.	129.9677
main_dich	float64	Source column.	1.0
main_mean_ln	float64	Source column.	4.875
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	2026
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	2026
source_period_label	category	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	2026
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	Mali - VIEWS conflict forecasts
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	mli-views-conflict-forecasts-country-month.csv
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	6dbc94fc-811c-4f28-b041-45031fb1f275
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	2157d112-88d8-4e65-9674-37290864712d
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/6dbc94fc-811c-4f28-b041-45031fb1f275/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by-sa
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-12T23:12:09Z

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-mali-views-conflict-forecasts-78e1fa7e")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MLI"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mali_mali_views_conflict_forecasts_78e1fa7e_2027,
  title        = {Mali - VIEWS conflict forecasts | Africa (Mali official open data)},
  author       = {Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System},
  year         = {2027},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/mli-views-conflict-forecasts},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-mali-views-conflict-forecasts-78e1fa7e}}
}

License

Released under CC BY-SA.

Original data (c) Violence & Impacts Early-Warning System. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-08-13 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/6dbc94fc-811c-4f28-b041-45031fb1f275/resource/2157d112-88d8-4e65-9674-37290864712d/download/mli-views-conflict-forecasts-country-month.csv