Matthew Lim - Week 5 Journal

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Task 1: Add comments for readability; modified the behavior of the agents such that the 'cost' = 1 if they move to a centroid not containing the beltline
Task 2: Modify code to depend on housing "centroids" of subregions
Task 3: Modify code to establish nodes without pickle or graph (roadmap)

Weekly Accomplishments

What tasks did you complete this week? (Include links)
This week, I modified the City and Agent classes to run independently

Tasks are still ongoing? Current status?
Ongoing tasks include visualizing these nodes/subregions without using pickle/graph g of "roadmap", since we are no longer using a roadmap. Additionally, we still have to find the exactly centroids of the subregions - latitude and longitude

Challenges and Learning

What was the biggest challenge you faced this week? How did you address it?
The biggest challenge was refactoring the Agent and City classes such that the code functioned as intended without relying on the automated generation of nodes using pickle+roadmap. A lot of automated functions/implementations had to be manually rewritten.

What's one new thing you learned or skill you improved?
My understanding of the code was definitely enhanced, as I had the opportunity to go through it and rewrite much of it this week.

Did you attend any team meetings? Key takeaways?
Besides the weekly meeting, I called with Devam twice; first to discuss how to make changes to the code, and again to review the changes I made.

Reflection and Planning

Your progress this week?
I made good progress this week. I was able to complete all my tasks except finding the exact centroids of each subregion. However, we can approximate the centroid's latitude/longitude by plotting the centroid on the subregion's shape using a graphing library (geopandas?) and approximating the coordinates on google maps.
Main focus for next week?
Hopefully today or tomorrow we can run the simulation with visualization. Go over simulation findings and next steps.

Any resources you're looking for?
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