Essential Tools for Honours Students

by Rob J Hyndman

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1 Essential Tools for Honours Students Rob J Hyndman 5 April 2017

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Managing references 3 Mendeley ¯ Free and on all operating systems ¯ Web-version and local version synced ¯ Browser extension for adding papers/books ¯ Attach notes and annotations to papers. ¯ Works with Word, LibreOﬃce or LaTeX. ¯ Generate bibliography automatically ¯ Handles all formatting for you. To install: Set up account at www.mendeley.com Download from www.mendeley.com

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Managing references 4 Zotero ¯ Free and on all operating systems ¯ Web-version and local version synced ¯ Browser extension for adding papers/books ¯ Attach notes and annotations to papers. ¯ Works with Word, LibreOﬃce or LaTeX. ¯ Generate bibliography automatically ¯ Handles all formatting for you. To install: Set up account at www.zotero.org Download from www.zotero.org

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Managing references 5 Paperpile ¯ $3 per month and runs on Google Chrome ¯ Papers stored on Google Drive ¯ Browser extension for adding papers/books ¯ Works with Google Docs or LaTeX. ¯ Generate bibliography automatically ¯ Handles all formatting for you. ¯ Amazingly fast To install: Set up account at paperpile.com Download Google chrome browser extension

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Data analysis and computation 6

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Using R 7 Statistics software ¯ Free and open-source ¯ Available on all operating systems ¯ A language rather than a package ¯ Great graphics ¯ Add-on packages to do almost anything ¯ Many jobs now require it To install: Download R from www.r-project.org Download RStudio from www.rstudio.com

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Writing a thesis 8

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9 Document processing ¯ Free and open-source ¯ Available on all operating systems ¯ Used by every mathematical publisher ¯ Separate content from style ¯ Format complex equations ¯ Automatic numbering ¯ Automatic bibliography ¯ Almost every language To install: Download MikTeX, MacTeX or TeXlive. Download TeXStudio from texstudio. sourceforge.net/

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RMarkdown 10 RMarkdown ¯ Combines R and LaTeX into one system ¯ Reproducible research ¯ Monash Honours Template ¯ Useful for assignments too

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Slides and links robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/ software-for-honours-students/ 11