daedalus.data is a package that provides input data to use in the DAEDALUS model. This package never needs to be used directly when using the basic features of daedalus.
The idea behind having the data in a separate package is rather that country, infection, or scenario-specific data (or parameters) can be updated without needing to touch the larger daedalus codebase.
The package provides data from Walker et al.
(2020) on country demography,
country workforce per economic sector, and social contacts between age
groups in country_data.
The package also provides data from Jarvis et al. (2024) on workplace contacts in economic sectors. Both datasets are accessed by internal functions to reduce the need for user input.
Note on dependencies
This package is a dependency of daedalus but also ‘Suggests’ daedalus itself. This is not a circular dependency; the idea is to allow users to access some epidemic-model parameters, such as the desired number of age groups, when preparing the raw data for use in the model.