As the end of the semester looms ever closer, deadlines are fast approaching. In preparation for our preliminary poster sessions next week, I have completed a draft of my poster. It’s been a huge push to get everything onto the 30″x40″ poster, but I’m happy with how it’s turned out! In the near future, I […]
The Outline of the Century
Outlines are a simple tool to break down the main ideas of a long paper. As one of my outcomes will indeed be a lengthy thesis paper, I’ve written up a very rough outline that will guide the progression of my writing. I predict that much of this will change as I complete my […]
New Progress & Reflections on Past Topics
Much of our time in school is spent studying past material, but in my thesis research, I have to combine both current and historical material to be successful in creating relevant and applicable results. As such, I’ve done a few things this past week, including popular news media analysis, a reflection on my recent “madlibs” […]
With the few weeks left…
The end of the semester is on the horizon. To help my productivity stay high, I have created a timeline for the remainder of this semester. Obviously, there are many many things to do still, but laying them out in chronological order will present this mountain of work in more manageable bite-sized pieces. 11/12 Literature: […]
Good Step Forward with Spatial Analysis
While I started pulling some spatial data off the internet some weeks ago, this week I managed to do some initial spatial analysis with the data! It’s exciting to brush off my old ArcGIS skills and gain new ones as I move forward with step one of my methodology. While in no way complete and […]