Theory -> Hypothesis

Hypothesis -> Theory

General Topic - > Papers in

Mendeley -> Literature Review ->
-> Specific Topic (one of the
problems in GT) ->
-> Research Proposal ->
Introduction -> Methodology ->
Experiment and Results
(Application, System,
Performance Evaluation) >
Discussion and Conclusion ->
Abstract -> paper draft -> paper ->
publish

LATEX - mark up language, PL

for typesetting tech/scientific
documents
FOR books, papers, articles,
presentations, tech reports, cv

Philosophy of separation of the

content from presentation
FOCUS ON CONTENT

Philosophy of WORD - What u see

is what u get

ADVANTAGES of LATEX
1. Quality and beauty of final
result (prof look)
2. Convenient to use
3. version control (git)
4. Comments
5. FREE
6. Work with bibliography IS
PERFECT
7. Cross referencing
8. Prepared style files (style files
may be prepared by experts,
conferences, by yourself)
9. Collaboration-friendly
10. No complex formatting
11. Including Multiple Files

DISADVANTAGES of LATEX
Difficult learning curve

IDE - integrated dev environment

TexMaker, Kile - offline
Overlief - online

Disadvantages of WORD :
1.Зависает (sometimes you have to
restart the app )
Not convenient to be used for big
documents
2. INSTABILITY , WORD MAGIC
(images, text shifting)
3. Poor automatic enumeration of
tables, sections, images,
bibliography,ToC
4. Working with formulas is not
convenient, Diff to use for
technical writing (math,
pseudocode)
5. Выравнивание пробелами
6. Working with bibliography
7. Compatibility issues (word
versions, os..)
8. Final result
9. NOT FREE
10. Poor styling
11. Not good for collaborative
work and version control
12. No comments

Services:
Detexify - symbols
Table generator
Mendeley (bib)
StackExchange
Wikibooks -
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTe
X
ImageOnline (eps files
conversion)

Examples of beautiful Latex

typography for your inspiration -
https://tex.stackexchange.com/
questions/1319/showcase-of-
beautiful-

Experiment (5 points),
deadline - week 6
You can take conduct ANY
experiment from ANY research
field.
Controlled Exp, Trial Exp,
Comparison Exp
Case Study, Survey
Precision, Recall, False Positive ,
F measure

Experiments for preferences

evaluation - 2AFC, Ranking,
Rating,

Recommendation Algorithm
Evaluation Experiment (Netflix
example)
Ranking

A B C D
Pred: 0.8. 0.3. 0.5 0.2

User choice from most preferred

to least preferred:
A D C B
0.8 0.2 0.5. 0.3

Concordant AD AC AB CB
Discordant DC DB
Kendalls tau - 2/6 = 0.33

2AFC
A B C D
Pred: 0.8. 0.3. 0.5 0.2

A. B. B! FAIL
0.8. 0. 3
B C. C! HIT
0.3 0.5
C D. C! HIT
0.5. 0.2
…

Datasets you can use in the

experiment:
https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/
index.php
https://data.caltech.edu/
Kaggle, for example,
https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/
ashwingupta3012/human-faces
BUT better to create your own.
Have fun!