Implement the new interventions from the Day80.pdf file.
The challenge asks to estimate the effectiveness of 5 control options (they mention that if our model can not asses all of them, we can use only some):

• Culling of all pig herds in protection zones (not in surveillance zones). Note that if a
  farm is in a protection zone when it has to be repopulated, the process is delayed until
  the protection zone is lifted.

• Increasing the size of the active search area around infected wild boar carcasses found
  outside the fenced/buffer areas (from 1 km to 2 km)

• Culling of all pig herds located at less than 3 km from positive wild boar carcasses

• Increasing the size of the surveillance zone (from 10 km to 15 km, but still during 30
  days)

• Culling of all herds that have traded pigs with an infected farm less than three weeks
  before detection

Here's an article for creating a symlink on Windows: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

For Macs: http://osxdaily.com/2015/08/06/make-symbolic-links-command-line-mac-os-x/

Data provided for period 2 also has a herds dataset, check if its any different from the one provided for the first period and if the shapefilee for the model needs to be updated

We need to use the new data provided to update the grid 1 new PH outbreaks and 997 WB carcasses have been detected since.

Are there any things we can do better? some issues:

• The model takes a while to setup every iteration because it reads a csv file and then runs a loop to get the neighbors for every agent, maybe we can find another approach for this.

• The hunting pressure intervention uses a rate to decrease the population of WB, the challenge suggest to reduce the population in a 90%, we don't really account for this

Check the table of parameters and look for literature that can support our estimations used for the model

• Update hunting pressure. hunting pressure will be implemented for other 10 days (until day 120)
• Since day 90, depopulation of pig herds has been implemented in 3-km ratio around active cases (both wb and ph)

Check the pdf description for more info

Use the land cover features to obtain better estimations of the wild boar populations

• Update the predictions for effectiveness of fencing with and without hunting pressure

• How likely is that the epidemic will fade in the next 4 months (230 days) given the new control measures

• How likely is that there will be a second wave or become endemic on wild boars?

• Suggestions to limit the risk

• Can the control measures be lifted by the day 230?