Weekly Update from 7/2-7/9

Howdy!

This week, I didn't do too much. I spent a lot of my time attending to personal matters and wasn't able to do as much as I wanted, but I was able to complete the first two problem sets for MIT's Python course and have had a lot of fun defining functions and using those to create fun calculators. I've kept some projects on the backburner to continue learning, but it's time for me to actually start doing them.

For the DiD project, seeing the effects of house bill 3:

I want to compare the following states

• Florida- similar size and demographics

• Georgia- similar graduation rate growth + similar reforms

• Arizona- some demographic similarities and has some of the same issues with education funding and student performance

• North Carolina- similar education reforms and similar improvements

• Tennessee- similar trends and similar education reforms

I chose the following states for their similarity to Texas and wanted to see if the trends coalesce at the same time as Texas did and also to track their trend rates with similar reform actions. I'm starting the visualizations on Tableau and want to be done with them by the end of the week

I need to get back to the probability textbook as I want to be done with a bulk of it by mid August, so I need to really put my head down and study the book.

I'm also starting to do some market research on industries that I'm interested in with regards to use of ML and the blind spots that AI has for them. I want to be done with the market reports by the end of the next week.

So for this next week, concrete goals are:

Read and finish 2 chapters of probability textbook, hopefully 3

Finish visualizations for state education trends

Finish 3 state DiD analyses

Finish one problem set from MIT Python course