Cipher cracking 2015 weekly progress

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Weekly progress and questions

This is where you record your progress and ask questions. Make sure you update this every week. The deadline is every Friday evening. However, if you sometimes slip a little into the weekend (so long as you don't do it too often) we won't be too hard on your marks.

Please remember that we make use of this progress section to give you your project mark. Your mark will suffer if you don't complete this section.

Briefly record (i) progress, (ii) problems/questions, (iii) goals for following week.

Semester 1 Week 1

Nicholas

  1. Week 1 progress:
    • Contacted Jikai and had preliminary meeting
    • Contacted Professor Abbott and held first meeting
    • Meeting occurred on Wednesday 4th March from 11:00am to 12:10pm
    • Booked Research Seminar with Librarian for Week 4
    • Conducted Background research by reading about previous final year projects
  1. Goals for Week 2:
    • Research google n-gram
    • Find out how much space the database requires
    • Find out about applying to use some of the budget on the purchase of a hard drive to store the database
    • Find out the cost of a copy of the google n-gram database (if any)

Jikai

  1. Week 1 progress:
    • Meet Prof. Abbott and Nicholas.
    • Read and understand the background of the project.
    • Analyse all the documents from previous groups.
  1. Goals for Week 2:
    • Install some software given from Dr Matthew.
    • Prepare for Project Proposal Seminar in week 5.

Semester 1 Week 2

Nicholas

  1. Week 2 progress:
    • Researched Google n-gram, size, cost.
    • Discovered Microsoft Web N-Gram Services
    • Researched Microsoft Web N-Gram Services
  1. Goals for Week 3:
    • Read about Git Hub
    • Create Git Hub account
    • Clone repository and install GUI on my Mac and Windows systems
    • Send Matthew Berryman user info to be granted permissions to repository
    • Begin work on Proposal Seminar
    • Create project Gantt chart
    • Create project Work Breakdown Structure
    • Organise meeting with Professor Abbott

Jikai

  1. Week 2 progress:
    • Finish Github installment and creat an account in Github.
    • Download and use Github to check the folders Cipher_GUI and Decoding Toolkit from 2013 to find some useful information to continue our work.
    • Prepare for Proposal Seminar.
  1. Goals for Week 3
    • Trying to do the P-value for all language.
    • Doing Proposal Seminar.
    • Meet Prof. Abbott.

Semester 1 Week 3

Nicholas

  1. Week 3 progress:
    • Created Git Hub Account
    • Commenced work on Proposal Seminar
    • Created Work Breakdown Structure
    • Commenced work on project Gantt Chart
    • Organised meeting with Professor Abbott for Monday 23rd March (Week 4) at 3pm
    • Emailed Microsoft and applied for user token to be granted access to the Microsoft Web N-gram Services and received a reply
  2. Goals for Week 4:
    • Attend meeting with Professor Abbott on Monday 23rd March at 3pm
    • Send Matthew Berryman user info to be granted permissions to repository
    • Finish project Gantt Chart
    • Continue work on Proposal Seminar
    • Attend Literature Search Training Session on Tuesday 24th March at 10am

Jikai

  1. Week 3 progress:
    • Begin calculate P-value of the code as some languages.
    • Worked on Proposal
  2. Goals for Week 4:
    • Have meeting with Prof. Abbott on Monday.
    • Finish Proposal draft and send to both Prof. Abbott and Dr. Mattew for feedback.

Semester 1 Week 4

Nicholas

  1. Week 4 progress:
    • Continued work on Proposal Seminar
    • Emailed Matthew Berryman GitHub user information
    • Attended Literature Search Training Session on Tuesday 24th March at 10am
    • Attended Professor Abbotts presentation on giving presentations
  1. Goals for Week 5:
    • Work on Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt Chart, Task Allocation, Risk Assessment and Budgeting
    • Submit draft of PowerPoint presentation and talk for Proposal Seminar to Professor Abbott
    • Rehearse for Proposal Seminar
    • Present Proposal Seminar on Tuesday 31st March

Jikai

  1. Week 4 progress:
    • Finished draft of PPT presentation and met Prof Abbott on Monday.
    • Attended Literature Search Training Session on Tuesday.
  1. Goals for Week 5:
    • Present Proposal Seminar on Tuesday 31st March.
    • Continue doing P-value about the European language.

Semester 1 Week 5

Nicholas

  1. Week 5 progress:
    • Completed Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt Chart, Task Allocation, Risk Assessment and Budgeting
    • Submitted draft of PowerPoint presentation and talk for Proposal Seminar to Professor Abbott
    • Rehearsed for Proposal Seminar
    • Presented Proposal Seminar on Tuesday 31st March
  1. Goals for Week 6:
    • Commence background research for draft research proposal
    • Obtain previous groups statistics code from Professor Abbott

Jikai

  1. Week 5 progress:
    • Finish Seminar presentation


  1. Goals for Week 6:
    • Continue doing task 1: P-value about languages

Semester 1 Week 6

Nicholas

  1. Week 6 progress:
    • Commenced background research for draft research proposal.
  1. Goals for Mid-Semester Break:
    • Complete draft research proposal by due date on Friday 17th April.
    • Commence work on critical review of previous groups statistical analysis and begin to implement P-Value statistical testing.
    • Attend National Trust Somerton Man Tour on Tuesday 14th April.

Jikai

  1. Week 6 progress:
    • Begin draft research proposal.
  1. Goals for Week Mid-Semester Break:
    • Finish draft research proposal before Friday 17th April.

Semester 1 Mid-Semester Break

Nicholas

  1. Mid-Semester Break progress:
    • Completed draft research proposal by due date on Friday 17th April.
    • Commenced work on critical review of previous groups statistical analysis.
    • Attended National Trust Somerton Man Tour on Tuesday 14th April.
  1. Goals for Week 7:
    • Background research on how compile and program in Java for potential use in extension of 2013 group’s statistical frequency analysis.

Jikai

  1. Mid-Semester Break progress:
    • Finished draft research proposal
    • Have a trip to Somerton beach
  1. Goals for Week 7:
    • Based on 2013 group's work, continue doing P-Value test for Europen languages

Semester 1 Week 7

Nicholas

  1. Week 7 progress:
    • Conducted background research on how compile and program in Java for potential use in extension of 2013 group’s statistical frequency analysis.
  1. Goals for Week 8:
    • Organise meeting with Professor Abbott.
    • Organise meeting with Jikai.
    • Evaluate usability of 2013 group’s statistical analysis for extension.

Jikai

  1. Week 7 progress:
    • Used mathematic method to do the P-value test for Europen languages.


  1. Goals for Week 8:
    • Considering to use java or matlab to do the P-value test.
    • Meeting prof. Abbott.

Semester 1 Week 8

Nicholas

  1. Week 8 progress:
    • Met with Professor Abbott.
    • Met with Jikai to discuss progress.
    • Evaluated usability of 2013 group’s statistical analysis for extension: Decided to use a combination of Java and Excel. Java to be used for text processing, and outputting letter frequency results, and Excel to perform statistical analysis calculations and graph outputs.
  1. Goals for Week 9:
    • Organise meeting with Jikai and Professor Abbott.
    • Contact Peter Varsos
    • Download programming resources
    • Begin compiling and formatting text resources for use in statistical frequency analysis.

Jikai

  1. Week 8 progress:
    • Met with Nick to discuss P-value task progress.
    • Used excel to calculated P-value for English and Scots.


  1. Goals for Week 9:
    • Making a meeting with Professor Abbott.
    • Wait for Peter's reply about statistic value for each language in text resources.
    • Finish the P-value test between English and Somerton code.

Semester 1 Week 9

Nicholas

  1. Week 9 progress:
    • Organised and attended meeting with Professor Abbott for Friday 15th May
    • Researched how to create branches and commit to GitHub
    • Committed 2013 group's work to GitHub
    • Downloaded and installed Eclipse
    • Emailed Peter Varsos about obtaining frequency analysis text files
  1. Goals for Week 10:
    • Hopefully obtain text files from 2013 group for use in frequency analysis
    • Prepare test text files to test statistical analysis P-value method

Jikai

  1. Week 9 progress:
    • Met with Professor Abbott and discuss our progress.
    • Complete the P-value test between English and Somerton code.
  1. Goals for Week 10:
    • Begin the P-value test for English, French and German.
    • Compare the 44 letters in somerton code with letters in English, French and German by Declaration of the human rights.

Semester 1 Week 10

Nicholas

  1. Week 10 progress:
    • Received reply from Peter Varsos, directed me to contact Lucy Griffith
    • Emailed Lucy Griffith and received a reply, awaiting an additional reply to see whether or not she can find original text files for 2013 group’s statistical frequency analysis
    • Received reply from Lucy Griffith with zip file including all text files
    • Prepared test text files for English, German and French to test our p-value statistical frequency analysis code
    • Committed working version and modifications of 2013’s group to Git Hub for use with text processing
    • Organised and attended meeting with Professor Abbot for Friday 22nd May
  1. Goals for Week 11:
    • Research how to create and edit wiki page
    • Create Research Project Proposal & Progress Report 2015 Wiki page
    • Download Anova package for Excel to test Jikai’s P-value method
    • Run test case for P-value in Matlab to check method against Excel and by hand
    • Commence writing progress report section of Research Project Proposal & Progress Report document
    • Organise meeting with Professor Abbott for Friday 29th May

Jikai

  1. Week 10 progress:
    • Received test text files for English, German and French from Nick, and use excel to calculate the P-value for each language declaration against Code, other languages declaration against English statistics and English decalaration against itself.
    • Meet Nick and Professor Abbot for Friday 22nd May.
  1. Goals for Week 11:
    • Use mathmatic methed to manually calculate P-value to check the result from excel is correct or not.
    • Use Matlab methed to check the result from excel is correct or not.

Semester 1 Week 11

Nicholas

  1. Week 11 progress:
    • Researched how to create and edit wiki page
    • Created Research Project Proposal & Progress Report 2015 Wiki page
    • Download Stat Plus for Mac to run Anova P-value test in Excel to test Jikai’s P-value method
    • Ran test case for P-value in Matlab to check method against Excel and by hand
    • Commenced writing progress report section of Research Project Proposal & Progress Report document
    • Attended meeting with Professor Abbott on Friday 29th May
  1. Goals for Week 12:

Jikai

  1. Week 11 progress:
    • Used mathmatic methed to manually calculated P-value, the result was same as excel did.
    • Use Matlab to calculated the P-value, the result was same as excel did.
    • Attended meeting with Professor Abbott and Nick on Friday 29th May.
  2. Goals for Week 12:
    • Calculate the P-value for European languages form Declaration against Somerton code and compare results with 2013 group's.
    • Finish Semester A proposal and progress report.

Semester 1 Week 12

Nicholas

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Nicholas

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