Presentation

Jon Withers - TL
Schubert Laforest - DS
James Truslow - LA

Where, when, and under what conditions should the City of Chicago use pesticides most effectively to prevent outbreaks of West Nile Virus?

Gather data
What data might be available that can predict the presence of West Nile infected mosquitos?
Build a model for the probability that the disease will be present
Assess the cost of spraying versus benefit for different model thresholds

Trap location data for 2007-2014. with odd-numbered years labeled with number of mosquitos and West Nile cases. Weather data for relevant years. Spray data for 2011 and 2013. https://www.kaggle.com/c/predict-west-nile-virus/data

Based on our logistic regression model, we have probabilities and recommendations for future outbreaks of the disease.