The Hitchhikers Guide to Research Based Development Projects.

In this talk Nader will give his top tips on how to survive research based software development projects. Based on over a year of practical experience and mistakes by the end of the talk you will come away with tips on finding the right mentor or research supervisor, how to structure your research, where to begin, how to maintain focus and the importance of testing.

Transcript

1. The Hitchhikers Guide to Research Based Development Projects. How to complete your project and only go slightly mad. Nader Al-Shamma @nadershamma https://nadershamma.com
2. Before You Start Find your passion and a master to guide you.
3. Keep it Simple Stupid
4. How I began Utilising mHealth to Aid with the Treatment and Self-Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease 1. Understand the nature of the disease. 2. Develop a means of collecting and presenting data: a. Build android app for patients b. Build web portal for clinicians c. Build web portal with anonymised data for research 3. Develop an Intelligent system to help make sense of the data collected a. Build an AI that does lots of stuff 4. Create a Virtual Patient
5. How I Ended With an MVP
6. Tip 1: Write First Watch: How to Write a Great Research Paper • A video of Professor Simon Peyton Jones, a Microsoft researcher, giving a lecture on writing at Cambridge University. https://youtu.be/g3dkRsTqdDA Structure your paper with heading and start writing from the outset.
8. Tip 2: Work with what you know You have a lot to do! Pick a language and tech Stack you can be comfortable with.
9. Tip 3: Don’t Reinvent the wheel • If it exists use it! • If it doesn’t, is it the objective of your research? • Are you sure it doesn’t exist?
10. Tip 4: Test, test, test and test some more!
11. Tip 5: Invoke the Panic Monster! • Create tangible deadlines as you go along • Do some talks on your works at periodic intervals! • See “Inside the mind of a master procrastinator” by Tim Urban
13. Tip 6: Don’t Panic!
14. Bonus Tip! Use Zotero web extension and office plugin to manage citations. It will make life so much easier and it is free and open source!!!!