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Mentor: Dr. Shion Guha
Lab Github: https://github.com/marquettecomputationalsocialscience
Personal Github:https://github.com/KatyWeathington

Week One

  • Orientation
  • Data discussion meeting and updating new team members on previous work and lab goals
  • Background reading on various spatial clustering algorithms and use of data science concepts in police departments

Week Two

  • Compiled a preliminary list of clustering algorithms sorted into family, with a note of potential sources of biases and a summary of the steps
  • Demonstrated a variety of clustering algorithms on random data
  • Explored Kernel Density Estimates

Week Three

  • Expanding a dictionary for sanitizing address data
  • RCR Training
  • Made a poster for upcoming Northwestern Mutual event
  • Opened API keys