User:Rkeating
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Contents
Week 1: June 1st, 2021
Tuesday (6/1/21)
- Attended REU orientation and day 1 of the Data Science boot camp
Wednesday (6/2/21)
- Attended day 2 of the Data Science boot camp
- Met with fellow researcher, Michael Rodriguez, and mentor Dr. Snowden to discuss research direction
- Downloaded and registered ArcGIS software (geographic information system)
Thursday (6/3/21)
- Attended Dr. Brylow's presentation on “Good Research Practices and the Art of Keeping Logs”
- Began reading literature on effective research writing
- Read relevant project literature and logged with a bibliographic reflection
- Clarke, R.V.G. & Eck, J. E. (2007) Understanding Risky Facilities.
- Explored ArcGIS software
Friday (6/4/18)
- Continued reading literature on effective research writing
- Read relevant project literature and logged with a bibliographic reflection
- Continued learning in Python's 'Pandas' library
Week 2: June 7th, 2021
Monday (6/7/21)
- Attended Dr. Brylow's training on "Responsible Conduct of Research"
- Continued reading literature on effective research writing
Tuesday (6/8/21)
- Read relevant project literature and logged with a bibliographic reflection
- Bursik, R.J., & Grasmick, H.G. (1989) Neighborhoods and Crime (1-23).
- Snowden, A. J., & Pridemore W.A. (2014). Off-premise alcohol outlet characteristics and violence.
- Read and completed exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 1
Wednesday (6/9/21)
- Attended Dr. Brylow's presentation on "Technical Writing"
- Met with Michael Rodriguez and Dr. Snowden to discuss literature content and continual research development.
- Read relevant project literature and logged with a bibliographic reflection
- Snowden, A.J. & Freiburger, T.L. (2015) Alcohol outlets, social disorganization, and robberies: Accounting for neighborhood characteristics and alcohol outlet types.
- Began reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 2
Thursday (6/10/21)
- Read relevant project literature and logged with a bibliographic reflection
- Snowden, A.J. (2016) Alcohol Outlet Density and Intimate Partner Violence in a Nonmetropolitan College Town: Accounting for Neighborhood Characteristics and Alcohol Outlet Types
- Finished reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 2
- Continued learning in Python's 'Pandas' library
Friday (6/11/21)
- Read relevant project literature and logged with a bibliographic reflection
- Snowden, A.J., Stucky, T.D. & Pridemore W.A. (2017) Alcohol outlets, social disorganization, and non-violent crimes in urban neighborhoods, Journal of Crime and Justice.
- Began reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 3
Week 3: June 14th, 2021
Monday (6/14/21)
- Read relevant project literature and logged with a bibliographic reflection
- Snowden, A.J., Hockin, S. & Pridemore, W.A. (2017) The Neighborhood-Level Association Between Alcohol Outlet Density and Female Criminal Victimization Rates.
- Finished reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 3
- Began conceptualizing testable hypotheses
Tuesday (6/15/21)
- Read relevant project literature and logged with a bibliographic reflection
- Snowden, A.J. (2019) Exploring violence: The role of neighborhood characteristics, alcohol outlets, and other micro-places.
- Snowden, A.J. (2019) Crime and off-premise alcohol outlets: do characteristics matter?
- Began reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 4
- Continued conceptualizing testable hypotheses
Wednesday (6/16/21)
- Attended weekly student check-in
- Read relevant project literature and logged with a bibliographic reflection
- Sampson, R.J. & Groves, W.B. (1989) Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social Disorganization Theory.
- Finished reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 4
- Continued conceptualizing testable hypotheses
Thursday (6/17/21)
- Completed a review of ArcGIS materials through textbook chapter 4.
- Read relevant project literature and logged with a bibliographic reflection
- Weisburg, D. (2015) The Law Of Crime Concentration and The Criminology of Place.
Friday (6/18/18)
- Began reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 5.
Week 4: June 21st, 2021
Monday (6/21/21)
- Read relevant project literature and logged with a bibliographic reflection
- Weisburd, D., Bruinsma, G. & Bernasco, W. (2009) Units of Analysis in Geographic Criminology: Historical Development, Critical Issues and Open Questions
- Continued reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 5
Tuesday (6/22/21)
- Began writing comprehensive literature review
- Finished reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 5
- Finalized hypotheses sets for meeting on Wednesday.
Wednesday (6/23/21)
- Attended weekly student check-in
- Continued writing a comprehensive literature review
- Met with research team to discuss hypotheses, presentations and available crime data.
Thursday (6/24/21)
- Began scanning through datasets from the "City of Milwaukee Open Data Portal"
- Continued writing a comprehensive literature review
- Began reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 6.
Friday (6/25/21)
- Finished reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 6.
Week 5: June 28th, 2021
Monday (6/28/21)
- Attended Dr. Brylow's talk on "Good Presentations"
- Began compiling a mid-REU presentation
- Began reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 7
- Continued writing a comprehensive literature review
Tuesday (6/29/21)
- Completed compiling mid-REU presentation
- Met with research team to discuss and practice presentation
- Continued writing a comprehensive literature review
- Finished reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 7
Wednesday (6/30/21)
- Attended mid-REU presentation session
- Presented on "The Association Between Alcohol Outlet Density and Homicides"
- Began reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 8
- Continued writing a comprehensive literature review
Thursday (7/1/21)
- Finished reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 8
- Continued writing a comprehensive literature review
Friday (7/2/21)
- Completed CITI training modules
- Began reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 9
- Continued writing a comprehensive literature review
Week 6: July 4th, 2021
Monday (7/6/21)
- Completed reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 9
Tuesday (7/6/21)
- Attended Dr. Zimmer's talk on "Data Ethics"
- Began reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 10
- Continued writing a comprehensive literature review
Wednesday (7/7/21)
- Attended Dr. Brylow's talk on "Creating Posters"
- Met with research team to discuss next steps in performing visual analysis
- Completed reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 10
Thursday (7/8/21)
- Continued writing a comprehensive literature review
- Began cleaning crime datasets provided by the City of Milwaukee using Excel
- Performed basic analysis of crime using Python's Pandas library
Friday (7/9/21)
- Continued cleaning crime datasets from City of Milwaukee using Excel
- Imported small crime dataset into ArcGIS to ensure dataset was compatible with existing boundaries.
Week 7: July 12th, 2021
Monday (7/12/21)
- Imported main dataset with over 40,000 reported crime incidents into ArcGIS.
- Began cleaning alcohol outlet dataset provided by the City of Milwaukee using Excel
- Began joining variables with socioeconomic attributes in ArcGIS.
Tuesday (7/13/21)
- Began visual analysis in ArcGIS, kernel density maps, heat maps, etc.
Wednesday (7/14/21)
- Attended weekly student check-in
- Continued visual analysis in ArcGIS
- Met with research team to discuss findings
Thursday (7/15/21)
- Continued visual analysis in ArcGIS
Friday (7/16/21)
- Continued visual analysis in ArcGIS
Week 8: July 19th, 2021
Monday (7/19/21)
- Met with research team to perform statistical analysis in IBM's statistical software, SPSS.
- Began exploring bivariate correlations present among attributes
Tuesday (7/20/21)
- Continued statistical analysis, negative binomial regression
Wednesday (7/21/21)
- Attended weekly student check-in
- Continued statistical analysis, negative binomial regression
- Met with research team to discuss findings
Thursday (7/22/21)
- Continued visual and statistical analysis
Friday (7/23/21)
- Continued visual and statistical analysis
Week 9: July 26th, 2021
Monday (7/26/21)
- Continued visual and statistical analysis
- Began writing final research paper
Tuesday (7/27/21)
- Continued visual and statistical analysis
- Continued writing final research paper
Wednesday (7/28/21)
- Attended weekly student check-in
- Continued writing final research paper
- Met with research team to discuss findings and research paper progress
Thursday (7/29/21)
- Continued writing final research paper
- Began compiling slides and data for research presentation
Friday (7/30/21)
- Continued writing final research paper
- Continued compiling slides and data for research presentation
- Began creating research poster
Week 10: July 12th, 2021
Monday (8/2/21)
- Continued writing final research paper
- Continued compiling slides and data for research presentation
- Finished creating research poster
Tuesday (8/3/21)
- Continued writing final research paper
- Finished compiling slides and data for research presentation
- Practiced presentation talk
- Submitted research poster
Wednesday (8/4/21)
- Met with research team to discuss final results and the paper, poster and presentation
- Continued writing final research paper
- Practiced presentation talk
Thursday (8/5/21)
- Attended first day of formal presentations
- Presented on "The Association Between Alcohol Outlet Density and Homicide"
- Attended and presented in virtual poster session with other REU programs
Friday (8/6/21)
- Attended second day of formal presentations
- Finished research paper
- Submitted final research paper, poster, and presentation
