Draft 4/11

I just did the weekly preparation assignment about poster assessment. The poster that I looked at tried to find a link between google searches for west nile virus and if the virus was present in the area. It was a pretty cool idea, they had an algorithm to predict when and where the next west nile outbreak would be but when they incorporated google trends into the algorithm it became significantly more accurate. The researchers best guess as to why this could be is because if people here about the virus or there are a lot of mosquitoes present people search for the virus. The more people searching it in a specific area is usually fueled by a certain factor. The poster looked very nice overall, it had all of the components that a scientific poster requires. I was not a huge fan of the way that the poster flowed through. It appeared broken up by the two figures in the middle of the poster and the text was in two sections on either side that had little separation. This made it look like there were two massive blocks of text on either side of the poster, that kind of through off the flow when I read it.