The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemic

<p>This repository contains the data of&nbsp;the study &quot;The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemic&quot;.</p> <p><strong>Epidemiological data</strong></p> <p>The folder&nbsp;<em>zika_USA_weekly_cases_2016.zip&nbsp;</em>contains weekly ZIKV incidence counts reported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2016, by state.&nbsp;Data were extracted from reports&nbsp;made publicly available by the CDC&nbsp;at:&nbsp; <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/584136#.Xk07-RNKjOQ">https://zenodo.org/record/584136#.Xk07-RNKjOQ</a>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Web news data</strong></p> <p>The file&nbsp;<em>news_GDELT_data.csv.gz&nbsp;</em>contains all news&nbsp;items extracted from the GDELT platform (<a href="https://www.gdeltproject.org/">https://www.gdeltproject.org/</a>) matching <em>TAX_DISEASE_ZIKA </em>as a Theme, and <em>United_States</em>&nbsp;as a Location in the GDELT platform.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>TV closed captions</strong></p> <p>The file <em>zika_TV_mentions_dataframe.csv </em>contains&nbsp;all the TV news items of 2016 matching the word ``Zika&quot; &nbsp;in the TV News Archive https://archive.org/details/tv</p> <p><strong>Wikipedia pageview counts</strong></p> <p>Dataset 1:&nbsp;<em>wikipedia_dataset1_zika_daily_pageview_usa.csv</em></p> <p>Content of each line of the dataset: day, pageview_count</p> <p>The dataset contains the daily number of pageview counts of 128 different Wikipedia pages related to the Zika virus (aggregated and summed to total) originated in the United States, from January 1st to December 31st, 2016.</p> <p>Dataset 2:&nbsp;<em>wikipedia_dataset2_zika_daily_pageview_bystate.zip</em></p> <p>Content of each line of the dataset: day, pageview_count, state</p> <p>The dataset contains the daily number of pageview counts of 128 different Wikipedia pages related to the Zika virus (aggregated and summed to total) originated in the United States, disaggregated by state, from January 1st to December 31st, 2016.</p> <p>Dataset 3:&nbsp;<em>wikipedia_dataset3_zika_pagecount_by_city.csv</em></p> <p>Content of each line of the dataset: US_city, pageview_count_Zika,pageview_count_total</p> <p>The dataset contains the total number of pageview counts of 128 different Wikipedia pages related to the Zika virus (pageview_count_Zika) originated in 788 cities (US_city) of the United States with a population larger than 40,000 in 2016.The dataset also contains the total number of pageview counts to all Wikipedia pages (all Wikipedia projects, pageview_count_total) originated in 788 cities (US_city) of the United States with a population larger than 40,000 in 2016.&quot;</p>