Constructing a map of Zika risk in Florida
Zika risk is defined as the population at risk of contracting Zika from the Aedes Aegypti mosquito. This means we are ignoring travel and sexually transmitted infections.
The two main datasets we have:
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Population. The 2010 census block population. You'll have to download it yourself as it's larger that GitHub will allow.
From these I take a population map, and mask out any populations that do not lie within the historical range of A. Aegypti.
There is one script zika_maps.py. Running the script will save a shapefile of the risk, with a map.
To run this you'll need some spatial libraries:
And all their dependencies. In addition, the US python library is used to get a map of Florida's boundaries.