For this week I have done the following tasks:

Learned to view shapefile contents with Netlogo and Python library pyshp. A shapefile is an Esri vector data storage format for storing the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features. This type of file is quite complicated so it took me sometimes to understand the format and its contents.

I had trouble finding the right dataset for my project. Charlie suggested that I look into https://www.frames.gov/afsc/partners/fmac/guides-products. I downloaded the data for Alaska but it does not have the contents that I was looking for. Finding the right data is currently a big challenge.

I am also getting more familiar with Netlogo. Using Netlogo, I could view the content of the data for Alaska and also extract the metadata using the command line provided with NetLogo.