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Your Title Here (team name - tool[s] or specific approach)
e.g. “University of Maryland – SuperVis”

VAST 2010 Challenge
Hospitalization Records -  Characterization of Pandemic Spread

Authors and Affiliations:

e.g. Tom Jones, University of Maryland, Jones@cs.umd.edu  [PRIMARY contact]
       Mary Smith, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, [email]
      Paul White, University of Maryland [Faculty advisor], [email]
      (NOTE: the PRIMARY contact needs to be joinable by email for a week after submission and again before the Sept. 1st deadline for camera ready materials)

Tool(s):

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Additional credit to developers of the tools can be provided here, and links to find more information on the tool. 

If the tool used is a toolkit, rate the effort needed to customize the toolkit for this specific analysis. Consider such things as programming ability required, amount of time needed.

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Video:

 

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ANSWERS:

MC2.1: Analyze the records you have been given to characterize the spread of the disease.  You should take into consideration symptoms of the disease, mortality rates, temporal patterns of the onset, peak and recovery of the disease.  Health officials hope that whatever tools are developed to analyze this data might be available for the next epidemic outbreak.  They are looking for visualization tools that will save them analysis time so they can react quickly.

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MC2.2:  Compare the outbreak across cities.  Factors to consider include timing of outbreaks, numbers of people infected and recovery ability of the individual cities.  Identify any anomalies you found.

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