BrSuicides: Dataset for analysis of daily suicide cases in Brazil
Abstract
Suicide is among the main causes of death in the world and with increasing rates in Brazil. The WHO and health professionals argue that the collection and analysis of suicide data are important for implementing and evaluating regulations and public policies to assist in suicide prevention. Brazil, however, still lacks in-depth analysis and implementation of public policies for suicide prevention. In this context, this work presents and makes available the BrSuicides set, composed of data related to suicide cases in Brazil and created from the death database provided by DATASUS. The pre-processing tasks significantly reduced the inconsistencies presented in the data found and examined in a set prepared for analysis from different perspectives, from exploratory statistical analysis to time series machine learning.
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