About the Authors

Meredith T. Niles

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mtniles@uvm.edu

Affiliations Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America, Food Systems Program, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America

Benjamin F. Emery

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Vermont Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America

Andrew J. Reagan

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MassMutual Data Science, Amherst, MA, United States of America

Peter Sheridan Dodds

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Vermont Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America

Christopher M. Danforth

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Vermont Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare the following interests: MTN is a member of the board of directors of The Public Library of Science (PLOS). This role has in no way influenced the outcome or development of this work or the peer-review process. After the research for this paper was completed, AR became employed by the commercial company, Mass Mutual (https://www.massmutual.com/). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.