ISSS608 2017-18 T1 Assign ZHANG LIDAN
Epidemic Spread in Smartpolis
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Background
Motivation
Smartpolis is a major metropolitan area with a population of approximately two million residents. During the last few days, health professionals at local hospitals have noticed a dramatic increase in reported illnesses.
Observed symptoms are largely flulike and include fever, chills,sweats, aches and pains, fatigue, coughing, breathing difficulty, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, and enlarged lymph nodes. More recently, there have been several deaths believed to be associated with the current outbreak. City officials fear a possible epidemic and are mobilizing emergency management resources to mitigate the impact.
To clearly explore the origin and epidemic spread in Smartpolis, it is essential to identify approximately where the outbreak started on the map (ground zero location) and outline the affected area.
In addition, it is needed to present a hypothesis on how the infection is being transmitted. For example, is the method of transmission person-to-person, airborne, waterborne, or something else? Is the outbreak contained? Is it necessary for emergency management personnel to deploy treatment resources outside the affected area?
About Dataset
There are 3 datasets given in csv format. Here, I mainly focus on the Microblog dataset at first.
Tools Application
I use JMP to do the data pre-processing, then plot the data by using Tableau.
Work Flow
