End of week 5/20

This marks the end of the first phase. I’ve divided the project into 4 5-week phases. I should now be done with the preparations and start doing the bulk part of the master’s thesis.

Summary of week [5/20]

• Monday: replicating earlier results on anomaly detection
• Tuesday: replicating earlier results on anomaly detection
• Wednesday: replicating earlier results on anomaly detection
• Thursday
  • Replicating earlier results on anomaly detection
  • Some experimenting and visualizing of metrics in Grafana
  • Prepared the outline for my report
• Friday
  • Prepared the outline for my report
  • Had a meeting with my supervisor regarding what to prioritize going forward
  • Wrote this post

Next week

Next week will begin the next phase of the project. In my project plan, I’ve divided the project into 4 phases and during next phase (Phase II) I’ve planned for doing the bulk part of the work, collecting data, running anomaly detection methods.

I’ve just now reached the point where I can start implement anomaly detection methods, so in this regard one could say that I’m back on track on my project planning.

Upcoming tasks

Next week I should send in my report for my first peer review session of my master’s thesis, so therefore I will obviously have to spend some time writing on my report next week.

I still haven’t “established a baseline” for normal operations yet (see last weeks tasks) or made a final decision on what metrics to use for anomaly detection. So I will do that either during the weekend or during next week.

Besides from that, I should design and implement anomaly detection algorithms. :)