@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ title: Exponential Growth 2
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language : Python
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- One of you lab mates (you may remember them from the For Loops 2
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+ * The data for this problem is no longer available.*
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+ One of your lab mates (you may remember them from the For Loops 2
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problem) is busy working on insect population dynamics. Initial results
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suggested that exponential growth was too simplistic for understanding
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the observed dynamics, so now they need to look at logistic growth.
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Your lab mate has compiled data from literature on the reproductive
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rates and carrying capacity for a number of different individuals for a
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variety of species. You've been teaching them about database structure
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- so they have broken the data into two tables: an [ individuals
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- table] ( http://www.programmingforbiologists.org/sites/programmingforbiologists.org/files/individuals_table.csv )
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- and [ species
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- table] ( http://www.programmingforbiologists.org/sites/programmingforbiologists.org/files/species_table.csv ) .
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+ so they have broken the data into two tables: an * individuals
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+ table* and * species table* .
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The database has information on several different taxonomic groups, but
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for this project your lab mate is only interested in the data for the
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insects.
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species, plot the time to equilibrium as a function of the reproductive
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rate and (on a separate graph) the carrying capacity.
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- You can either break this problem down into manageable parts yourself
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- (you can use the [ problem decomposition
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- steps] ( http://www.programmingforbiologists.org/problem-decomposition-steps )
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- to help) or follow [ this
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- approach] ( http://www.programmingforbiologists.org/problem-decomposition-problem-decomposition ) .
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+ Break this problem down into manageable parts yourself using the [ problem
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+ decomposition steps] ({{ site.baseurl }}/materials/problem-decomposition).
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Turn in the Python code and (if you use one) a database file with any
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queries that you use.
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