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Weekly Log

Week 1 (5/29/2018 - 6/4/2018)

  • Attend REU orientation
  • Background reading on history of the project, previous research, API tools, and different clustering methods.
  • Do preliminary exploration of crime data.

Week 2 (6/5/2018 - 6/11/2018)

  • Continue researching clustering methods.
  • Deliverable: Presentation on the different families of clustering methods and the algorithms that fall within each. For each algorithm, discuss its steps and the points at which human interaction is required (potential biases). Next, perform the different clustering algorithms on the sample Milwaukee crime data that has geocodes available.