Use of tools for research

USE OF TOOLS FOR RESEARCHDr Jing [email protected], ext: 4111

Content (9:30am – 11:30)

• Introduction• Latex• Reference management• Figure, Diagram, PDF file• Zero Inbox, GTD, mind mapping• Note taking, Wiki, personal website• Cloud computing, storage, backup, online security• Collaboration, communication, group messaging• Matlab, Labview, Circuit and PCB design, programming

IDE, board controller• Other useful resources

Content (11:30am – 13:00)

• Latex demo• Figures• Tables• Diagram• Slides• CV

• References management Demo• Mendeley• Zotero• Refworks

• Wiki Demo• Labview Demo

Introduction

Standing on the shoulder of Giants

Introduction

Introduction

Latex

Latex• Designed by academics and easily accommodates academic

use.• Professionally crafted predefined layouts make a document

really look as if “printed.”• Mathematical symbols and equations are easily integrated.• Even complex structures such as footnotes, references,

table of contents, and bibliographies can be generated easily.

• Forces author to focus on logical instead of aesthetic structure of a document.

• Creates more beautiful documents.• Portable, compatible, flexible, versatile, and cheap (or free)!

Latex

Latex

• Research paper• Thesis• Letter• Report• Slides• CV

Latex

http://isac.wikidot.com/research-resources

More resources

“The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2”

Latex

Installation

Library + Tex Editor

Latex

Package

TeX Live

http://miktex.org/ https://www.tug.org/texlive/

Latex

Tex editor

Texmaker TeXworks TeXstudio WinEdt

Comparison of TeX editorsWikipedia

Emacs

Latex

Web version

Sharelatex

Overleaf

Authore

Reference management

• Create a searchable database of your references

• Manage PDFs

• Take searchable notes

• format bibliographies and in-text citations in hundreds

of citations styles

• share references and collaborate on projects with

colleagues

Reference management

QUB Refworks

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Figure

LibreOffice Draw

Diagram

PDF file – view, edit, and createView PDF

Edit PDF

PDF-XChangeAdobe reader Sumatra PDF Foxit Reader

Adobe Acrobat Pro£75.29

PDF-XChange Editor£30

BrissFree pdf Crop

Adobe Acrobat Pro 8free

Create PDF

Zero Inbox

Zero Inbox

QUB Junk mail

GTD

Getting Things Done

David Allen“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them”

GTD

Todoist Wunderlist Any.do

Remember the Milk Toodledo Asana

Mind mapping

Mind mapping is a great way to brainstorm, make a plan, or turn ideas into the steps needed to make it real

Mind mapping

Note taking

What do you use for taking notes?

Note taking

Wiki

DokuWiki

Zim

Website

Cloud computing

What do you know about cloud computing?

Cloud computingPlatform as a service (PaaS)

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

Software as a service (SaaS)

Cloud computing

Private cloud

Storage

Storage

Storage

Pogoplug TonidoPlug WD My CloudSeagate

Personal Cloud

Backup

Security

Security

Collaboration

Group messaging / online meeting

Cisco WebEx gotomeeting join.me

Programming

Programming

Board controller

Arduino Raspberry Pi BeagleBoard

mbed Intel® Edison Particle Photon

EEECS resources (credit to Jonny McCullagh)• QUB Email Blacklisting

http://www.qub.ac.uk/mailtools 

• Wordpress QUB Blogsblogs.qub.ac.uk 

• Personal Web Hosting within EEECSselfservice.eeecs.qub.ac.uk LAMP or .NET

• Personal QUB subdomain

• Gitgitlab.eeecs.qub.ac.uk

• Log in with EEECS username and password• Code version control etc

Can be used for collaboration and even latex documentation

• Sending Large Filesdropbox.qub.ac.uk

• ownCloudI have an EEECS ownCloud installation if anyone is interested in a Dropbox/Box private alternative - contact [email protected] 

• Short URLsgo.qub.ac.uk - create personal QUB-specific short web addresses e.g.go.qub.ac.uk/jonny

• DokuWiki

• If any research groups want to have DokuWiki for collaboration I can set up an EEECS DokuWiki service. HPDC group currently use DokuWiki. 

• SurveysI have an installation of Lime Survey if any researchers need to send surveys/questionnaires rather than using external services such as SurveyMonkey 

• Hackerspace• https://selfservice.eeecs.qub.ac.uk/hackerspace.php