African foods for deep learning-based food recognition systems dataset.

African foods have socio-cultural significance that extends through migration, tourism, and marriage. Africans travel and integrate within the continent through intermarriages. There are over a thousand cultural aspects that differ such as language, food, dressing, beliefs and customs. Food is one of the cultural aspects that Africans embrace quickly as they migrate and integrate socio-culturally. We considered the limited representation of African food research in the HCI community and propose to contribute the rich significant food datasets from two African countries: Cameroon and Ghana. List of Cameroonian foods collected are: Ekwang, Eru and Ndole. In addition, the list of Ghanaian foods we collected are: Jollof Rice, Palm-nut Soup and Waakye. Given the cultural diversity and our study's goal for cultural inclusion, we interacted with at least two locals from the selected countries, and they confirmed that these foods were universally recognized within their respective countries. The datasets were collected from YouTube, Facebook, the field (restaurants), Creative Common Attribution Google Images, and other Creative Commons Attribution sources. A total of 204 images of Ekwang, 206 images of Eru and 205 images of Ndole were collected. In addition, we collected a total of 347 images of Jollof Rice, 392 images of Palm-nut Soup and 400 images of Waakye. We present a meta-data description of the data, quality assessments of our dataset and opportunities for the HCI community to explore in the future.

An exploratory assessment of a multidimensional healthcare and economic data on COVID-19 in Nigeria.

The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic that is ravaging Nigeria and the world at large. This data article provides a dataset of daily updates of COVID-19 as reported online by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) from February 27, 2020 to September 29, 2020. The data were obtained through web scraping from different sources and it includes some economic variables such as the Nigeria budget for each state in 2020, population estimate, healthcare facilities, and the COVID-19 laboratories in Nigeria. The dataset has been processed using the standard of the FAIR data principle which encourages its findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability and will be relevant to researchers in different fields such as Data Science, Epidemiology, Earth Modelling, and Health Informatics.