Over winter break, my primary focus will be writing the background and methods for my thesis.  I’ve been reading a lot of papers and I think I have a good amount of general knowledge.  I just need to consolidate what …

Hi – Erin and I decided to take a short break from TIDE to study for finals and work on our final projects for Distributed Systems and Databases.  I have three finals coming up in Statistics, Distributed Systems, and Databases.  …

Our IRB still has not been approved.  The status on Kuali (our university’s IRB management system) still reads “In process.”  Typically it takes only about a week to receive a response, so I emailed our IRB officer about our application.  …

Erin and I linked our database to our sent and received messages today.  We are both new to MySQL so it was a bit of a challenge.  One place we got stuck was calculating elapsed time, where we had a …

I don’t have much to report on this week because I have been sick all week and thus unable to work much on TIDE.  Erin and I have planned to continue working on linking the database to the messages this …

This week Erin and I set up our database. Here’s a picture of our database schema:

Plans for this week:

• resubmit IRB
• link our database to TIDE

We plan to discuss with our advisor what an appropriate text body …

Hi y’all,

Week #7 is approaching an end and Erin and I have made significant progress this week.  We have been able to respond to messages and now we are working on saving the information in a database.  Here, the …

Week #6 has absolutely just flown by.  Midterms are done so back to TIDE work.  I’ve been working on replying to text messages this week.  I’m still having problems with the IU SOIC server so I’m using a service called …