Simulating an epidemic

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kaunta · 2020-04 · Strong recommendation

Garrett, thank you. * * * My inspiration for writing this came from watching 3Blue1Brown's YouTube video, "Simulating an epidemic": [VIDEO] His simulations cover several scenarios: - Simulating social distancing. - Having people travel to a central location (e.g. a grocery store). - What if the government is able to identify and isolate cases? - Simulating multiple communities with travel, that put quarantine measures in place. - What happens when people get tired of social distancing. * * * Thanks for sharing your code. I see that you are using gnuplot to visualize the output of the script. Have you considered using the csv module ( [LINK] ) to output the data, instead of using the print() function? That way, you wouldn't have to manually add in spaces around the data and stringify the numeric data. >>> import csv, sys >>> writer = csv.writer(sys.stdout, delimiter=" ") >>> writer.writerow(["#", "T", "S", "I", "R"]) # T S I R In the script, usage would look something like this: import csv import sys ... writer = csv.writer(sys.stdout, delimiter=" ") writer.writerow(["#", "T", "S", "I", "R"]) writer.writerow([T, S, I, R]) while I > 1000: ... writer.writerow([T, S, I, R])

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foobarbecue · 2020-03 · Strong recommendation

Part of 3 Blue 1 Brown's excellent latest video simulates travel restrictions and suggests they're not very effective: [VIDEO] . However, that was only for cutting travel between all communities by a factor of 4, rather than completely banning travel between two particular communities / countries.

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systemvoltage · 2021-05 · Recommendation

Dynamics of the virus spread is quite interesting. 3Blue1Brown made a fascinating video about how an epidemic spreads: [VIDEO]

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