Devam Mondal - Week 4 Journal

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List your top 3 tasks or objectives for this week:

Task 1: Find relevant data for the Atlanta Beltline.
Task 2: Explore the data and identify key features.
Task 3: Brainstorm a new process for the simulation.

Weekly Accomplishments

What tasks did you complete this week? (Include links):
This week, I found relevant demographic/regional data for the Atlanta Beltline. With this data, I explored it (investigate what aspects it covered and what features existed), and considered the most important features for our model. With these features, I brainstormed a process for our simulation.

Tasks are still ongoing? Current status?
All tasks for week have been done.

Challenges and Learning
What was the biggest challenge you faced this week? How did you address it?
The biggest challenge that I faced was figuring out how to run the simulation with this external data. Because our simulation has time-steps, we need to address change in the features considered. To do this would require some type of weighted averaging or just basic averaging that does updating. However, the latter may be too simplistic, and the former might introduce unnecessary complexity. I want to discuss these ideas with the team this Wednesday.

What's one new thing you learned or skill you improved?
I improved my ability to analyze CSV files and conduct literature review. I was able to assess the features of the the dataset and connect them to current methods in the paper.

Did you attend any team meetings? Key takeaways?
We did not have a meeting this weekend, but we will meet this Wednesday.

Reflection and Planning

Your progress this week?
I was able to complete all of my tasks, including finding relevant data, exploring it, and brainstorming a new process for simulation.

Main focus for next week?
I want to play around with the code we have to reflect the new methodology (initializing with real-life data and updating the various factors).

Any resources you're looking for?
Feddback from Dr. Kastner and Dr. Martinez about the new process for the simulation.