Having a day off from class week worked out perfectly for me. Our team met on Friday before we had off and decided to take the time off and meet this week. I went away to see family in Colombia, and the timing worked out great. It’s still early in the semester that it wasn’t a heavy lift to go away and be offline.

By working through our project proposals, defined our roles, and established concrete team and project guidelines, I am clear on the expectations. We have established a good relationship and rapport, I know if I needed clarity or assistance I can reach out at any time. I’m leading the data collection and mapping for the project. Our team set ourselves up to work and think about the project individually, I set up a task tracker in google sheets to organize deliverables and created a data folder and began collecting information.

Before leaving, I looked at more data sets on IPUMS, kaggel, and NYC Open Data and began to work and play in ARCGIS. I thought I work on more during the weekend, but with no wifi on flight and terrible connection at my grandparents my productivity slowed down. Again, it was nice to disconnect, it’s early enough in our project to take the break now.

I am excited to meet with our guest this week and take advantage of the ARCGIS workshop being offered on Wednesday. Time to jump into work mode!