Cipher cracking 2018 weekly progress

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

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