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# Week 4 progress:
 
# Week 4 progress:
 
#* Mass Spect Completed
 
#* Mass Spect Completed
#*  
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#* Finished Task 3
  
 
# Goals for Week 5:
 
# Goals for Week 5:
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#* Analysis results from mass spect
  
 
===Semester 2 Week 5===
 
===Semester 2 Week 5===
  
 
# Week 5 progress:
 
# Week 5 progress:
 
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#* Made some progress with the results
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#* Met with Derek
  
 
# Goals for Week 6:
 
# Goals for Week 6:
 
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#* Continue on analyzing results
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#* Continue writing thesis
  
 
===Semester 2 Week 6===
 
===Semester 2 Week 6===
  
 
# Week 6 progress:
 
# Week 6 progress:
 
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#* Made some progress with the results
 
# Goals for Week 7:
 
# Goals for Week 7:
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#* Continue on analyzing results
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#* Continue writing thesis
  
 
===Semester 2 Week 7===
 
===Semester 2 Week 7===
  
 
# Week 7 progress:
 
# Week 7 progress:
 
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#* Found Strontium levels are lower in Adelaide compared to Bali
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#* Continue analysing other elements to find any significants
  
 
# Goals for Week 8:
 
# Goals for Week 8:
 
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#* Continue writing thesis
  
 
===Semester 2 Week 8===
 
===Semester 2 Week 8===
  
 
# Week 8 progress:
 
# Week 8 progress:
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#* Graphs made with the different elements
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# Goals for Mid-Semester Break:
 
# Goals for Mid-Semester Break:
 
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#* Continue writing thesis
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#* Start making the poster
  
  
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===Mid Semester Break===
 
===Mid Semester Break===
 
# Week Mid-Semester Break progress:
 
# Week Mid-Semester Break progress:
 
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#* Poster nearly completed
  
 
# Goals for week 9:
 
# Goals for week 9:
 
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#* Continue writing thesis
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#* Complete poster so Derek can draft
  
 
===Semester 2 Week 9===
 
===Semester 2 Week 9===
 
# Week 9 progress:
 
# Week 9 progress:
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#* Poster completed, sent to get drafted
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#* Thesis needs to be completed, so it can be drafted
  
 
# Goals for week 10:
 
# Goals for week 10:
 
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#* Complete thesis
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#* Edit poster after it is drafted
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#* Start the final seminar slides
  
 
===Semester 2 Week 10===
 
===Semester 2 Week 10===
 
# Week 10 progress:
 
# Week 10 progress:
#*  
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#* Poster completed and submitted
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#* Final seminar slides done and sent to Derek to get drafted
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#* Sent Derek our thesis to get drafted
  
 
# Goals for week 11:
 
# Goals for week 11:
 
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#* Edit final seminar slides when drafted
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#* Edit thesis
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#* Prepare for expo
  
 
===Semester 2 Week 11===
 
===Semester 2 Week 11===
 
# Week 11 progress:
 
# Week 11 progress:
 
#* Get Thesis Drafted
 
#* Get Thesis Drafted
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#* Final seminar slides submitted
 +
#* Expo completed
  
 
# Goals for week 12:
 
# Goals for week 12:
 
#* Finish Thesis
 
#* Finish Thesis
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#* Prepare for final seminar
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#* Give all relevant files to Derek
  
 
===Semester 2 Week 12===
 
===Semester 2 Week 12===
 
# Week 12 progress:
 
# Week 12 progress:
#* Thesis done
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#* Thesis done and submitted
 
#* Work on Final Seminar
 
#* Work on Final Seminar
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# Goals for week 13:
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#* Prepare for final seminar
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===Semester 2 Week 13===
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# Week 13 progress:
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#* Final seminar completed
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#* Closed project
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Latest revision as of 11:35, 3 November 2018

Weekly progress

Semester 1 Week 1

  1. Week 1 progress:
    • Organise meeting with Prof. Abbott.
    • Contacted project partner and had a meeting.
    • Attended the literature training session with project partner at Bar Smith library.
  1. Goals for Week 2:
    • Meet Prof. Abbott.
    • Understand the aims of the project

Semester 1 Week 2

  1. Week 2 progress:
    • Met with Prof. Abbott.
    • Conducted Background research by reading about previous final year projects.
  1. Goals for Week 3:
    • Start preparing for the Proposal Seminar.
    • Research about Somertons Mans letters.

Semester 1 Week 3

  1. Week 3 progress:
    • Start Work Break Down Structure
    • Commenced work on project Gantt Chart
    • Organised meeting with Professor Abbott
    • Worked on Proposal
    • Met with project partner
  1. Goals for Week 4:
    • Attend meeting with Professor Abbott
    • Finish project Gantt Chart

Semester 1 Week 4

  1. Week 4 progress:
    • Finished project Gantt Chart
    • Met with Professor Abbott
    • Worked on Proposal
    • Met with project partner
    • MATLAB coding started for Task 1
  1. Goals for Week 5:
    • Finish Power point for proposal
    • Make more progress in with Task 1

Semester 1 Week 5

  1. Week 5 progress:
    • Power Point nearly completed
    • Names of horses, city names etc. have been finalized
    • Task 1 about 50% complete
  1. Goals for Mid-Semester Break:
    • Power Point has to be completed
    • Prepare speech for proposal
    • Meet with project partner in break to complete Task 1

Semester 1 Mid-Semester Break

  1. Mid-Semester Break progress:
    • Met with project partner
    • More coding done for Task 1
    • Graphs have been produced for Task 1
    • Task 1 75% complete
    • Power Point got drafted by Prof. Abbott
    • Proposal seminar completed
    • DNA testing kit has been delivered
  1. Goals for Week 6:
    • Organise meeting with Prof. Abbott
    • Complete Task 1
    • Collect the DNA kit
    • Send DNA kit ASAP

Semester 1 Week 6

  1. Week 6 progress:
    • Sent DNA to 23andMe
    • Had meeting with Derek
    • An extension of Task 1 was given, to further look into the book
    • Still working on Task 1
  1. Goals for Week 7:
    • Work on the extension task
    • Start working on thesis

Semester 1 Week 7

  1. Week 7 progress:
    • Original of Task 1 is completed
    • Extension of Task 1 near completion
    • The code is complete to count the letter in each line of the book
    • Thesis layout completed
    • Thesis introduction started
  1. Goals for Week 8:
    • Complete extension of Task 1
    • Complete Thesis introduction
    • Oragnize meeting with Derek

Semester 1 Week 8

  1. Week 8 progress:
    • Meeting with Derek
    • Derek said that we have good progress
    • Meeting with partner, to talk about thesis
    • Task 1 is fully completed
    • Results show that horse names are not the mysterious code
  1. Goals for Week 9:
    • Work on thesis

Semester 1 Week 9

  1. Week 9 progress:
    • DNA results have come back, need to have meeting with Derek ASAP
    • Thesis introduction completed
    • Sent drafts to each other
  1. Goals for Week 10:
    • Have meeting with Derek
    • Continue working on the thesis

Semester 1 Week 10

  1. Week 10 progress:
    • Meeting with Derek
    • Informed that we can't do any of the DNA task until the ethics is signed
    • Showed Derek results for task 1 and told us it was good
    • Drafted each others thesis and sent it back to each other
  1. Goals for Week 11:
    • Only task to do now is the thesis

Semester 1 Week 11

  1. Week 11 progress:
    • Thesis introduction completed again
    • Thesis technical background started
    • Thesis project management started
  1. Goals for Week 12:
    • Have the thesis completed by Tuesday, so we can send our drafts to each other

Semester 1 Week 12

  1. Week 12 progress:
    • Thesis completed and sent to partner
    • Draft each others thesis
    • Final copy of draft thesis completed and sent to my uni
  1. Goals for Week 13:
    • Have meeting with Derek to talk about the next task that need to be completed

Semester 1 Week 13

  1. Week 13 progress:
    • Exam study, therefore no project work
  1. Goals for Exam Period:
    • Do Exam

Mid Year Break Week 1

  1. Week 1 progress:
    • Meet up with partner to talk about next task
    • Ethics been approved
  1. Goals for Week 2:
    • Start doing DNA task

Mid Year Break Week 2

  1. Week 2 progress:
    • Degrading the DNA is nearly completed
    • Matlab code is nearly done
  1. Goals for Week 3:
    • Have the code completed

Mid Year Break Week 3

  1. Week 3 progress:
    • Code is completed
    • Started degrading the DNA, by removing SNPs
  1. Goals for Semester 2 week 1:
    • Meet with Derek and show him our progress

Semester 2 Week 1

  1. Week 1 progress:
    • Met with Derek, says our work is going well
    • Degraded the DNA by 10% intervals and now waiting for results
  1. Goals for Week 2:
    • After results have come, start to analyse the result and figure what the next steps are

Semester 2 Week 2

  1. Week 2 progress:
    • Another set of degrading data was put into Gedmatch to compare results
    • Met with Derek to inform us on what the next step is, which is to find false positives and false negatives and graph results
    • Also got told to look into the heritage stuff on Gedmatch
  1. Goals for Week 3:
    • Plot false positives and false negatives
    • Start looking into booking the mass spectrometer lab

Semester 2 Week 3

  1. Week 3 progress:
    • Mass Spect booked
    • Obtained Hair for Mass spect
  1. Goals for Week 4:
    • Complete Mass Spect
    • Write Thesis

Semester 2 Week 4

  1. Week 4 progress:
    • Mass Spect Completed
    • Finished Task 3
  1. Goals for Week 5:
    • Analysis results from mass spect

Semester 2 Week 5

  1. Week 5 progress:
    • Made some progress with the results
    • Met with Derek
  1. Goals for Week 6:
    • Continue on analyzing results
    • Continue writing thesis

Semester 2 Week 6

  1. Week 6 progress:
    • Made some progress with the results
  2. Goals for Week 7:
    • Continue on analyzing results
    • Continue writing thesis

Semester 2 Week 7

  1. Week 7 progress:
    • Found Strontium levels are lower in Adelaide compared to Bali
    • Continue analysing other elements to find any significants
  1. Goals for Week 8:
    • Continue writing thesis

Semester 2 Week 8

  1. Week 8 progress:
    • Graphs made with the different elements


  1. Goals for Mid-Semester Break:
    • Continue writing thesis
    • Start making the poster


Mid Semester Break

  1. Week Mid-Semester Break progress:
    • Poster nearly completed
  1. Goals for week 9:
    • Continue writing thesis
    • Complete poster so Derek can draft

Semester 2 Week 9

  1. Week 9 progress:
    • Poster completed, sent to get drafted
    • Thesis needs to be completed, so it can be drafted
  1. Goals for week 10:
    • Complete thesis
    • Edit poster after it is drafted
    • Start the final seminar slides

Semester 2 Week 10

  1. Week 10 progress:
    • Poster completed and submitted
    • Final seminar slides done and sent to Derek to get drafted
    • Sent Derek our thesis to get drafted
  1. Goals for week 11:
    • Edit final seminar slides when drafted
    • Edit thesis
    • Prepare for expo

Semester 2 Week 11

  1. Week 11 progress:
    • Get Thesis Drafted
    • Final seminar slides submitted
    • Expo completed
  1. Goals for week 12:
    • Finish Thesis
    • Prepare for final seminar
    • Give all relevant files to Derek

Semester 2 Week 12

  1. Week 12 progress:
    • Thesis done and submitted
    • Work on Final Seminar
  1. Goals for week 13:
    • Prepare for final seminar

Semester 2 Week 13

  1. Week 13 progress:
    • Final seminar completed
    • Closed project

See also

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