Before we are able to sort through the bat guano samples, we have to let them sit overnight in a solution. My task today was to make the solution, consisting of 10% Sodium Hexametaphosphate in deionized water.

My mentor and I discussed topics to help me better understand the machine learning and data analytics process. The topics included: Libraries, multicollinearity, SMOTE, and hyperparameter tuning.

Today, we reviewed a research paper (titled "Application of Fragment Ion Information as Further Evidence in Probabilistic Compound Screening Using Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning: A Leap Toward Automation") and discussed certain aspects used by the authors that we could implement as a part of our project.