Week 2

The goal of this week is to land our project and write your main message.

A: Abstract

1. Discuss with your consultant the project goals and understand the problem statement.
2. Write a draft of your abstract, see the examples. The abstract shall not exceed 600 characters. It may contain:
   1. wide-range field of the investigated problem,
   2. narrow problem to focus on,
   3. features and conditions of the problem,
   4. the novelty,
   5. application to illustrate with.

Land your project

1. Find in the organization github.com/intsystems
   1. the existing repository of your project or
   2. create it with the title Project-N using the project short title, see previous examples.
2. Create the folder structure:
   • docs,
   • code,
   • [data] if you have a small dataset to run demo,
   • [figs] if you have illustrations in read.me.
3. Put the link to your repository in the group table Spring 2025.
4. Fill out the readme.md file in the GitHub project. Use this example as a template.

Tips for your healthy repository

Clone the master and upload your contributions. See a short guide to GitHub.

• Update first, Commit after (Pull first, Push after)
• Your own work only, no external archives
• No big files (put link to external datasets)
• No temporary nor dummy files

Tell the difference between branch and fork.

Read the Manual on how to create a repository for educational projects.

If a large collective project continues, create a personal folder in the project repository. Title it Surname2018Title.

L: Literature

We use the LinkReview draft format to share our evanescent ephemeral ideas and impressions we have during the literature reading.

1. Collect the list of references including:
   1. state-of-the-art reviews, tutorials,
   2. fundamental solutions to the problem,
   3. the basic algorithm to solve your problem,
   4. alternative algorithms,
   5. [changes in the research directions],
   6. data sets and experiments,
   7. the papers that use these data sets
   8. applications of the results,
   9. names of researchers, who solve this problem,
   10. their students and teams,
   11. those, who refer to their works.
2. Balance the list of new and well-known works.
3. Keep up-to-date the list of keywords to search.
4. Continuously fulfill your LinkReview.
5. Plan Introduction. Collect
   • keywords as the basic termini; those who bring good search results are useful,
   • what the paper devoted to,
   • the investigated problem,
   • the central idea,
   • literature review,
   • the authors' contribution.
6. Add to LinkReview the references to data sources, code repositories, and libraries.

Tips for the bibliography collection

1. Read and collect various sources, but mind what you cite.
2. ArXiv is not a peer-reviewed source of information. Look for publications of these papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Be careful if the ArXiv paper does not appear in a peer-reviewed journal after one or two years. This paper might be non-verified since the other journals rejected it.
3. Wikipedia is not a source of information but contains many useful references.

B: Beginner's-talk

Short 45-second introductory talk. Plan of the talk:

1. The project goal. What is the motivation and the goal to reach?
2. The main idea. What is the message?
3. The expected result. What is your delivery, your impact, novelty?

There is no time to show a slide or draw a plot on the blackboard. Do rehearse your talk before the mirror. Week 3 starts with your talk.

Homework

1. Land your project.
2. Put the links to your project in the group table.
3. Prepare the letter A:
   1. discuss it with your consultant after reading (Step 1)
   2. Abstract
   3. Highlights
   4. Keywords
   5. Papers
4. Put it to your .tex.
5. Write the read.me file.
6. Read the literature. Put the references to your .bib file, and prepare the letter L.
7. Prepare the letter B, the beginner's talk.

References

1. List of academic databases and search engines
2. How to Read a Paper, by S. Keshav, 2016
3. Выполнение исследовательских проектов в коммерческой организации: методические рекомендации

Write or translate?

The rule is simple: write in the language you think in.

1. Read with pleasure (Ru) Советы эпизодическому переводчику. С.С. Кутателадзе
2. Как написать математическую статью по-английски. А.Б. Сосинский
3. Справочник издателя и автора. А.Э. Мильчин, Л.К. Чельцова

Teacher's plan

1. Fill out the questionnaire (discuss the previous and this one)
2. Discuss the umbrella terminology
3. Discuss the homework
   • Show the examples of the abstracts
4. Discuss the homework section

Steps to check the homework

1. After the deadline
2. Run through the table records
3. Check if the links open in one click to the material
   • for the papers there must be .pdf, .tex, and .bib files
4. Check the Title, Abstract, and Keywords in the paper pdf and put the Letter A
   • or A0 if not
5. Check the file LinkReview and put the letter L
   • put L0 if not
6. Check the quality of the Abstract and usefulness of LinkReview and if needed
   • put comments in the Table