Joshua S. Weitz is professor and the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland. Previously, he held the Tom and Marie Patton Chair in Biological Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he founded the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences. He is the author of Quantitative Viral Ecology (Princeton). Nolan English is a postdoctoral researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Alexander B. Lee is a data scientist with expertise in developing biological models in Python and MATLAB. Ali Zamani is associate data developer at Priceline.