CC's+Logbook+Nov+03

Back to Project Page Back to Logbook Page


 * Dec 03, 07 to Dec 07, 07

Dec 03 07** Today Dr. L talked to us most of classtime about the class' final which will be a milestone that will be turned in by the end of the semester. The milestone will highlight what work we have accomplished including logbooks, information, research done, etc. He sent us an email outlining the milestone and expectations he will use to grade them. However CM and I have a different assignment and Dr. L told us it was not nessessary for us to make a milestone to turn in. We will be focusing on making a poster for the Austin conference. For the rest of class, CM and I finished up understanding the spreadsheets.

Today CM and I moved into working on our poster design. Dr. L sent us the abstract version of what the poster will cover. We spent the day understanding what the poster will be about because it didn't seem clear to us at first. Our poster won't be talking about the project in huge detail because there are other researchers who are more knowledgable about our project that will be presenting it. Instead we will focus on how High School students carry projects like these. CM and I created an outline of information we will use for the poster and then made a rough general design of the poster.
 * Dec 04 07**

Today CM and I worked more on our poster. We talked to another scientist we have been in contact with about things we should know and where the project should head. He suggested that we work on looking up the error bars for our data. I am taking Statistics now so most of the error bars was familiar to me so I decided to work on it while CM works on our poster. I have started to look at the data and figure out average, standard deviation, and z-score.
 * Dec 05 07**

Today I worked mostly alone today further on finding the error bars for the data, but I have run into a problem. Working on excel is time consuming because i can't figure out how to do a mass-function to find standard deviation for all the data rows. Instead I've been having to do each row individually. I've emailed Dr. L if there is a way around it. I have worked and found mean and standard deviation for the data of one galaxy.
 * Dec 06 07**

Today I decided to help more with the poster with the date of the conference approaching. The error bars weren't working because i don't have any data against the one i have to compare it to. So we worked on the majority of our poster and should finish it soon.
 * Dec 07 07**