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Notifiable diseases by quarter, Queensland, 2010 to 2014

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Publisher Queensland HealthUpdated not since 2015Licence CC BY 3.0 AULatest 2015-03-18Rows 1,033Fields 4

One row per notifiable condition per quarter from January 2010 to December 2014, with the count of cases notified to the Queensland Department of Health, by quarter of onset. Conditions include influenza, pertussis, dengue, chlamydia and Ross River virus among 67 named in the file.

Also called: Queensland communicable disease notifications by quarter, Notifiable Diseases 2010 to 2014, Queensland infectious disease counts.

Before you use it
What is in each row?
One notifiable condition in one quarter, with the number of cases notified to Queensland Health. Quarters are counted by the date of onset, and quarter 1 is January to March.
Is this series kept up to date?
No. The publisher released this file for January 2010 to December 2014 and has not extended it. Queensland Health reports later notifications elsewhere.
Why are some conditions missing in some quarters?
A condition with no notified cases in a quarter has no row for that quarter.
1,033condition quarters
2010 to 2014years drawn
4fields
9formats
1version
020k40k60k80k2010: 57,76820102011: 64,96220112012: 70,55320122013: 59,01220132014: 73,4712014
Cases per year, 2010 to 2014. The figure is a sum of the cases column from version 2015-03-18, worked out in the build. Nothing else is added.

Made for agents

Connect your AI agent

Any agent that connects to publicdata.au/mcp can find this dataset, read its 4 fields, count and filter across all 1,033 rows and diff its versions. Every answer names the version and carries Queensland Health's attribution. No key.

Then ask it: What does Notifiable diseases by quarter, Queensland, 2010 to 2014 hold, and what changed in the newest version?

claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp

One command. No key, no account, no sign-up.

Download it as Excel, CSV, JSON and 6 more formats

Pick a format and a version. Excel is picked first because it opens in the tools most offices have. The URL is yours to keep. A dated version never changes.

Format
"Latest" redirects to the newest version and will change when the publisher releases again. A dated version never changes.
https://publicdata.au/d/qld-notifiable-diseases-2010-2014/latest/data.xlsx
Download

In your own tools

Use it in Excel, R, Python and more

Excel and Power BI read the CSV from its address and refresh from it. The R and Python packages take any dataset on this site by its slug, so a new dataset needs no new release. The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS, and a query reads only the blocks it touches.

The dated URL in the code never changes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-notifiable-diseases-2010-2014/latest/ redirects to the newest version.

https://publicdata.au/d/qld-notifiable-diseases-2010-2014/latest/data.csv

In Excel choose Data, then From Web, and paste this address. Excel keeps it, so Refresh All reads the newest version. A sheet holds about a million rows; past that, load the query to the Data Model.

What is in it

Column names are made snake_case and the publisher's original header is kept beside each one. Blank cells are null. Nothing is added, removed, ranked or summarised.

FieldTypePublisher's headerNote
yearintegerYEAR
quarterintegerQTRCalendar quarter, 1 to 4, by date of onset.
conditionstringCONDITION
countsintegerCOUNTSCases notified in the quarter.

Download this table as a data dictionary (Excel), or read it as a Frictionless Table Schema at schema.json. The key is year, quarter, condition.

A sample of 10 rows

From the latest version, newest first by year, then in the publisher's order, with every field. A blank cell is shown as null.

yearquarterconditioncounts
20141Acute Flaccid Paralysis1
20141Acute Rheumatic Fever16
20141Adverse Event Following Vaccination151
20141Barmah Forest Virus245
20141Brucellosis5
20141Campylobacter1390
20141Chikungunya4
20141Chlamydia (Non-STI)100
20141Chlamydia (STI)5389
20141Ciguatera30
The first row as JSON

As it appears in data.json.

GET https://publicdata.au/d/qld-notifiable-diseases-2010-2014/latest/data.json
{
  "year": 2010,
  "quarter": 1,
  "condition": "Acute Flaccid Paralysis",
  "counts": 1
}

Query it without downloading

The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Build a query here and run it, then copy the URL or the code into your own work.

Try rows or aggregate for this dataset. The query builder needs JavaScript.

How filters work

Each filter is field=operator.value in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with ilike. Prefix not. to negate a filter, as not.eq.value.

OperatorWhat it matches
eq.valueEqual to the value.
neq.valueNot equal to the value. A blank cell does not match.
gt.valueGreater than the value.
gte.valueGreater than or equal to the value.
lt.valueLess than the value.
lte.valueLess than or equal to the value.
like.*text*Matches a pattern where * stands for any run of characters. Case-sensitive.
ilike.*text*The same as like, ignoring case.
in.(a,b,c)Equal to any value in the list. A value cannot contain a comma.
is.nullBlank in the source, or suppressed by the publisher.
ParameterWhat it does
selectFields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent.
orderfield.asc or field.desc, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent.
limitRows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent.
offsetRows to skip. The next URL in each answer sets it for you.
groupOn aggregate, fields to group by, comma-separated.
metricOn aggregate, count, sum.field, avg.field, min.field or max.field, comma-separated. count when absent.
formatjson, ndjson or csv. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers.

Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put versions/<date>/ before rows or aggregate for an answer that never changes. /api/v1/datasets/<slug>/versions lists the loaded versions. The 1 newest version is loaded; versions lists them.

The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a Retry-After header, a RateLimit-Policy header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same RateLimit-Policy. A client should wait the Retry-After seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. openapi.json describes this dataset's query paths for client generators and agents.

https://publicdata.au/mcp is a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP with the same tools, defined in the same place, so a tool added to the pages is added here too. It needs no key and no account. The row tools are held to the query API's limit of 60 queries in 10 seconds from one address, and each call is two queries because it also counts the matching rows. Add it to Claude Code with claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp, add the URL in Claude as a custom connector, or give it to any client that connects to remote MCP servers. Each queryable dataset is also a resource at https://publicdata.au/d/<slug>/fields.json, which lists its fields with their types, the publisher's descriptions, their ranges and the values they hold, so an agent can read a dataset's shape before it writes a query.

Smaller files

The same rows split by a field, one JSON file each. Each file carries the same provenance header.

By year (5 files)

by/year/index.json lists every file with its row count.

What changed

One version for every release the publisher has made since this site started following the dataset. The date is the day the file changed on the portal.

  • 2015-03-18
    1,033 rows4 fieldsutf-8-sig8e727e084fd7

versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (7.0 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)

Questions

How do I download Notifiable diseases by quarter, Queensland as a CSV file?

Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-notifiable-diseases-2010-2014/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-notifiable-diseases-2010-2014/v/2015-03-18/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same.

Can I open Notifiable diseases by quarter, Queensland in Excel?

Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-notifiable-diseases-2010-2014/v/2015-03-18/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 1,033 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-notifiable-diseases-2010-2014/v/2015-03-18/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.

What years does Notifiable diseases by quarter, Queensland cover?

The current version covers 2010 to 2014. Each release from Queensland Health becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online.

How often is Notifiable diseases by quarter, Queensland updated?

Queensland Health has not updated it since 2015. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.

Can I use Notifiable diseases by quarter, Queensland commercially?

Yes. CC BY 3.0 AU allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file.

Is this the official source for Notifiable diseases by quarter, Queensland?

No. The publisher is Queensland Health, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/notifiable-diseases-2010-2014. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared.

How do I get only the rows for one year?

Every version has one JSON file per value of year, 5 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/qld-notifiable-diseases-2010-2014/v/2015-03-18/by/year/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/qld-notifiable-diseases-2010-2014/v/2015-03-18/by/year/2014.json holds the 216 rows where year is 2014.

What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version as source.csv so the change can be checked.