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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)

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 (7/4/21)

  • Completed reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 9

Tuesday (7/5/21)

  • Began reading and completing exercises in "Getting To Know ArcGIS Pro 2.6" textbook chapter 10
  • Continued writing a comprehensive literature review

Wednesday (7/6/21)

Thursday (7/8/21)

Friday (7/9/21)