The dataset records the historical Internet outage from "chorus" website. "chorus" is the biggest Internet fiber provider which serves the majority of ADSL, VDSL, fiber Internet connection in New Zealand.

Naming rule:

For example, folder 2025-04 contains data of 2025 April. File 2025-04-20 means the current Internet outage status at approximately (script triggered time may have about 10 minutes delay) 2025-04-20 10:00 UTC.

To parse the data, start with the following script.

import pandas as pd

outage = pd.read_pickle("2025-04/2025-04-20")

The meaning of columns are as follows.

Name	Data type	Description
`start_time`	`pandas.Timestamp`	The start time of outage.
`incident_point`	`shapely.Point`	The place of the label, which describes the incident, in chorus outage map.
`incident_area`	`shapely.MultiPolygon`	The area that cannot access to Internet.
`role`	`str`	Unknown.
`n_impacted_services`	`int`	The number of Internet services that are impacted.
`description`	`str`	Description.
`update_time`	`pandas.Timestamp`	The publishing time of latest update about this incident.
`update_text`	`str`	The content of latest update about this incident.

Because the table contain shapely objects, no text format is provided.

Data source: chorus