User:Slogan

About Me

My name is Sarah Logan and I am a rising senior at Siena College, which is located in upstate New York. I am majoring in Applied Data Science with a concentration in Biology. For the Summer 2020 REU at Marquette University, I am working on a project entitled "Ethical and Privacy Concerns with Suicide Risk Prediction Algorithms" with Dr. Michael Zimmer.

Work Log

Week 1

• Attended REU Orientation
• Mini Data Science Bootcamp
• Attended good research practices talk by Dr. Brylow
• Met with Dr. Zimmer to discuss planning of research goals and survey methodologies
• Developed research questions
• Began literature review of Big Data and data ethics
• Read about factorial vignettes

Week 2

• Responsible Conduct of Research Training with Dr. Brylow and Dr. Praveen
• Completed CITI modules
• Continued literature review of Big Data and data ethics
• Looked at examples of surveys and how they analyzed their data
• Met with Dr. Zimmer to discuss readings and survey logistics

Week 3

• Examined the structure of previous privacy surveys and the accompanying data analysis
• Explored the Qualtrics platform
• Reviewed statistical analysis procedures
• Researched articles related to online privacy concerns, privacy concerns in a healthcare setting, and privacy regulations
• Wrote questions for our survey
• Attended research talk by Dr. Praveen
• Met with Dr. Zimmer to discuss survey questions
• Revised survey questions

Week 4

• Continued revising survey questions throughout the week
• Read literature about different frameworks of understanding privacy
• Met with Dr. Zimmer to discuss privacy readings and survey questions
• Read literature about Big Data
• Attended research talk by Dr. Bialkowski + REU group meeting
• Entered survey questions into Qualtrics
• Began working on mini presentation

Week 5

• Made edits to the survey in Qualtrics
• Met with Dr. Zimmer to discuss survey and presentation
• REU group meeting on Good Presentations
• Prepared for mini presentation
• ESP/SPARK meeting
• Attended and presented at the Mini Presentations REU meeting
• Reviewed R
• Examined data analysis of a previous survey conducted by Dr. Zimmer

Week 6

• Presentation by Dr. Zimmer on data ethics
• Set up outline for data analysis in Excel and R
• Learned how to do cross tabs and chi square in R
• REU group meeting on creating posters
• Read more privacy articles
• Completed paperwork for MGH
• Researched articles about suicide prediction factors

Week 7

• Started writing Methods section of paper

• Survey Instrument
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis

• Continued working on Excel spreadsheet and R script for data analysis
• ESP/SPARK Meeting
• REU Group meeting
• Wrote down ideas for Introduction section
• Reviewed some privacy articles to help with Introduction
• Survey soft launch

Week 8

• Used soft launch data to run through data analysis plan
• Survey officially launched
• Revised data analysis plan
• Revised Methods and Introduction sections
• REU Group meeting on graduate school
• Reviewed data from survey to look for errors
• Met with Dr. Zimmer to discuss survey data
• Inputted frequency counts into Excel for every question

Week 9

• Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute Industry Panel
• Split data into a 'high' and 'low' concern group and inputted frequency counts for survey questions into Excel
• Made bar charts for all questions for total respondents, high concern group, and low concern group
• Summed the total responses to the data attribute concern questions, vignette concern and factor questions for total respondents, high concern group, and low concern group
• Conducted chi-square tests between privacy concern and demographics and privacy concern and vignette concern
• Aggregated useful comments from survey
• Made boxplots and conducted ANOVAs for demographic questions and privacy score
• REU Group meeting
• Met with Dr. Zimmer to discuss survey data and analysis
• Created stacked bar charts to compare knowledge of data category with concern over data category
• Broke down each vignette based on concern and compared how concern groups responded to the factor question of that vignette
• Divided suicide prediction vignette based on concern level and analyzed how people in the no concern and some concern groups responded to the data attribute questions
• Continued working on paper
• Patient Focus Groups meeting