Saturday, February 28, 2015

Next steps

Now that our literature review is complete, we'll be able to move onto statistical analysis of our datasets. We all read papers on Africa and its history of political violence. Additionally, we covered papers that discuss using the Google Maps API to showcase data on the map. 



The paper that I annotated on this subject dealt with American Foulbrood Disease (AFB). This is a disease that has the ability to wreak havoc on honeybee colonies. Honeybees play a vital ecological (and economic) role in their pollination of plants. The authors were able to use the Google Maps API to help visualize AFB outbreaks and to better monitor it.

 
-David

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Introduction

Team - Fawzya Alghamdi, David Ford, Tyler Martin
   
Our project is exploratory in nature. The goal is to uncover any correlations between armed political violence/aggression in African countries and WHO data for African countries. The WHO data includes various quality of life factors, mortality rates, etc. The results will be visualized through Google Maps via the Google Maps API. 


Wrapping up

  • Annotated bibliography

Partial completion, to be completed


In between shoveling snow and consumption of hot liquids, the following will be completed over the weekend and on Monday before class this coming Tuesday - 
  • Literature review
  • Project proposal (based partially on lit. review)
  • Deliverables schedule