Jason Stalker Final Project

[jstalker8]

Enjoy!

[labarba]

You are using some images without credit. Are those copyrighted images? You need to be careful about that. At least, there should be a full credit line. You may get away with just that since this is a purely educational document and one could claim “fair use” applies. But you need to give credit.

Background: I did not understand why everyone is reanimated as a zombie, regardless of how they die. What is the logic of that aspect of the scenario?

“The whole paper can be found here.” —> In general, it is not good form (although widespread in bad websites) to use “here” for a link embedded in a sentence. Sentences in an online document should make sense by themselves. Better form is to write a full sentence, and hyperlink the most suitable word in that sentence (for example, “paper”). Since you have a reference list, in this case, you might as well mention the reference in the text and add the PDF hyperlink in the reference citation.
(The same applies to “Per link” … you should write a complete sentence.)

“The SZR model has three compartments” —> you mean “components”?

"diffusion refers to the process by which molecules intermingle as a result of their kinetic energy of random motion” —>This is a verbatim copy of the original, used without quote marks. This is BAD FORM. You should never copy verbatim text from a source (even if you did provide a link to the source), unless you have good reason and you use quote marks.

Input line [7]: I don’t really see the point of showing this information as a contour plot. It seems a scatter plot would be more appropriate.

It’s also meaningless to show a contour plot of the extinct humans as a flat swathe of zero value in one filled contour (input line [12]). The contour plot for the victorious zombies is also not the best visualization.

Overall, my assessment is that this was a rather long-winded account of the scenario and model, with a plain-vanilla implementation and not very illuminating results. You provided no discussion of the results, and your reader is left wondering “what happened here?”

Typos, grammar, etc.

(many missing commas!)

breech in the wall —> breach
The SIR model works by divided the population —> dividing
effect of the virus over the population over time —> on the population
catagory —> category
only looking at short period of time —> at a short period
we don't expect their to be —> there
This doesn't bode will —> well
They are just going to have to make due —> do
spacial grid —> spatial
molecules intermingle —> word choice?
there motion would no longer be random —> their
lets just assume —> let’s
there movement —> their (and again below, a couple of times more)
lets start —> let’s
lets introduce —> let’s
Lets assume —> let’s
there initial diffusion rate —> their
boundry —> boundary
Lets also include — Let’s
built in stop —> built-in
they didn't fair much better —> fare
no one inside get infected —> gets
worst case senario —> worst-case scenario
bit indiviual —> individal (also, “bit” is awkward as adjective)
for for 1 min —> delete one “for”
how this changes result —> the result
how much this effects the results —> affects
See:
http://grammarist.com/usage/affect-effect/