Zombies, the “ truth” of it! Data Analysis Zombies, the “ truth” of it!

The end is near. After an ill-fated Justin Bieber concert, guests from all around the world were unknowingly bitten by individual carrying the Zombie Virus. Read dramrically to clas.

These guests returned to their homes and proceeded to transform into brain-eating Zombies. This has spread the virus and the Zombie population has erupted. Dr. Mariela Zombowski, the most renowned expert on infectious diseases, was buying a sandwich at Panera Bread, when she was bitten by a Zombie.

We are scrambling to process information about her transformation and we hope with your help she can be returned to the lab, as human as possible. There is a cure for the VIRUS, but it has limitations.

“If you are reading this, I’ve likely become a Zombie “If you are reading this, I’ve likely become a Zombie. Do not trust that the rules of “Zombieland” will keep you safe. The Zombies know how to take advantage of the rules. They have all new tricks. The only hope is an cure”. 10/11/14 Mariela Zombowski

WHAT DO WE KNOW? The ZOMBIE virus is Pandemic (worldwide) There is a cure for the VIRUS The VIRUS is highly contagious and vaccine must be given within 1 day (10 sec.) or you will become infected with the ZOMBIE Virus.

ASSUMPTIONS Doctors are healthy before coming in contact with the ZOMBIE Virus Doctors can become infected with the virus and ZOMBIES can be cured.

WHAT IS OUR JOB? We need to find out if the rate of ZOMBIE virus is spreading and is the cure slowing the rate of infection. Data needs to be collected. Send the doctors into the field and see if we can answer our questions.

“ Zombie Outbreak We need two data collectors, called the Tick Counters. One with a stopwatch. The field is divided into Zombieland and the Doctors hospital. There will be 10 Zombies. The Zombies must walk around Zombie-like an make zombie noises. The rest of you are doctors and go to hospital and are given vaccine cards and a white jersey.

One tick counter sets the timer for 10 seconds when the teacher says go. The other tick counter yells FREEZE! when the timer goes off. All Zombies and Doctors freeze. The teacher will separate you. The ZOMBIES that got the cure drop your vaccine cards. Step to the Doctor side. ZOMBIES that didn’t get the cure, step to the Zombie side. Doctors that vaccinated a ZOMBIE step to the Doctor side. Doctors that did not vaccinate a ZOMBIE step to the Zombie side. The tick counter counts how many Doctors and how many Zombies. They place this information on a data sheet. The teacher sends New Doctors to the hospital and New Zombies go to the field. Doctors get their jerseys and vaccine cards. We start all over again. After 4 ticks (days) the game ends. We start run 2. Teachers pick brand new doctors, gives them vaccine and jerseys and two new tick collectors. The game starts again. Play as many Runs as possible in 15 minutes.

Zombieland Doctors Let’s review this experiment. Tick Counters FREEZE! has stopwatch Vaccine here HOSPITAL Zombieland Doctors

Let’s go outside and run the Experiment

Watch this short video on how to create a graph. Open the Zombie worksheet in Excel and one of the collectors will place the data in the cells. Graph number of the Zombies and the number of doctors. This is our Visualization.

ABSTRACTIONS WE MADE WERE: 1 (10 sec.)tick = 1 day 4 ticks = 4 days If you are a doctor at one tick, then you were not infected. If you were a Zombie you were infected.

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS Are Zombies really a good project for the Challenge? Be real. Do you need data for your project? What are the minimal amounts of tests you should have in your program? How can you make sure that you Are testing what you think you are and does it represent the real world? Talk about validations and verification. Projects need data, samples, visualization and model the real world.