Project Journal Week 25

Tuesday

The week began with a scheduled meeting with Steve Manning. The idea was to discuss with Steve our results and the tests we had done on our results to make sure we were along the right lines. However, the meeting proved to be very useful to our report as Steve not only discussed our results but also gave us more knowledge of the background. For example we learned about the two separations of data analysis, parametric and non parametric. Overall the meeting went very well and Steve helped guide us so that we did the correct data analysis on them (refer to team blog).

Wednesday

On the Wednesday the team had a short meeting with Amanda and Claire and showed the new revised structure to the document, which they agreed with the change in direction. In the afternoon the team prepared all the necessary graphs for the supervisors and made sure that each member knew exactly why we had done certain tests on either the HR results or the PAD results and that each member knew how to explain each graph.

Thursday

The meeting with the supervisors focused on presenting our graphs in an informal manner, and explaining the progress the team had undertaken during the week. We discussed with them the results and explained the graphs as best we could, with the supervisors agreeing that we had produced good quality graphs.

Unfortunately after this meeting I could not help the team for the rest of the day as I had tickets booked to return home for the first week of Easter, aiming to comeback the second week to make sure that our final write-up is completed over the week.

Speaking to my team members after Thursday I found out that they had had another meeting with Steve to discuss their progress and discuss some of the extreme data. Steve agreed that we had done the correct data analysis for both HR and PAD results. Steve also stated that we could remove some of the extreme data in our HR results as they were causing a bias.

Overall the week went very well with a great amount of work achieved. It must also be stated that Steven Manning has been an invaluable help to us this week and have really found his input to be very useful. The plan now is to have the final draft completed in the second week of the Easter break.