Assembling the Pieces

Now let’s put everything together. The graph at the right summarizes our journey.

We ran the simulation, and then, thinking mechanistically, we constructed a theoretical model. From this we hypothesized that the growth was exponential and calculated the expected value of the one-second multiplier.

We then collected the data from the simulation, and analyzed it.  The analysis provided evidence for that exponential growth process and gave us a new estimate of the one-second multiplier.

The simulation was created with a Python program on a Jupyter notebook. Every time we run the program we will get different data and a different blue curve. But the red theoretical curve will always be the same.  It should in a sense give us an “average” curve for the different “runs” of the simulation.