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Gina Hong

personal information

• Undergraduate student at Marquette University
• Major in Mathematics
• Minor in Business Administration
• Expected to graduate in May 2017

Weekly Log

Week 1

• MSCS REU orientation
• Attended lab and library information session
• Meeting with mentor to discuss about the project
• Reading about PARC and Near West side

Week 2

• Attending PARC Meeting
• Completed Human subjects training
• Went to Center for peacemaking Data team meeting
• Research on Zombie properties
• REU Talk by Dr. Brylow: Good research presentations and technical writing

Week 3

• Attended weekly PARC Meeting
• Listened to Responsible Conduct of Research Training
• Cleaned DNS data (service request data) for 2013&2014 by complaint types
• Introduction to LaTeX by Dr. Corliss

Week 4

• Made a map of preliminary DNS violations in the Near West Side
• Compared preliminary DNS violations map to a tax delinquency map
• Attended PARC Meeting
• Picked out some possible zombie propreties
• Emailed Milwaukee Water Works about water bill delinquency database and County of Milwaukee for properties that have gone up for auction
• Met with Dr. Krenz to talk about updates and research talk

Week 5

• Meeting with PARC team at the center for peacemaking
• Worked on Powerpoint slides and talk for Thursday
• Met with Dr. Krenz to practice mini presentation
• Presentation on my project
• Looked at foreclosure data from the Sheriff's office

Week 6

• Fourth of July Holiday
• Emailed Sheriff's office for foreclosure data
• Emailed Milwaukee Waterworks for unpaid water bills
• Talked about graduate school at the Weekly REU meeting
• Watched tutorial video for Tableau

Week 7

• Attended weekly PARC meeting
• Emailed Sheriff's open record office for property auction data
• REU talk by Dr. Factor about poster session
• Created graphs of price of properties sold in Near West Side from 2010 to 2016
• Made a map of housing prices with candidates of zombie properties

Week 8

• Went to PARC meeting with Dr. Krenz
• Started to make research poster
• Met with Branden and Marc to talk about foreclosure data
• Made a regression model for estimating impact of zombie properties
• Cleaned the data set to run the regression model
• Analyzed results after running a regression model
• Edited the poster with Dr. Krenz
• Finished making the poster

Week 9

• Weekly PARC meeting
• Studied linear regression model
• Calculated mean and median of each neighborhood and years
• Made histogram using means and medians of neighborhoods
• Re-calculated mean and median using log transformation
• Attended REU poster session
• Started working on the paper

Week 10

• Attended last PARC meeting
• Made histograms and QQ plots by different years and neighborhoods.
• Updated presentation slides
• Gave a talk to the REU group
• Attended second part of REU presentations
• Finished RCR training
• Met up with Dr. Krenz to edit the paper
• Completed post REU survey
• Finished the paper and submitted it