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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
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Before You Start
Find your passion and a master
to guide you.
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Keep it Simple Stupid
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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
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How I Ended
With an MVP
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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.
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Tip 2: Work with
what you know
You have a lot to do! Pick a
language and tech Stack you can
be comfortable with.
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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?
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Tip 4: Test, test, test and test some more!
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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
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Tip 6: Don’t Panic!
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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!!!!