3. I’m Sujith Jayaprakash, Currently working as the
Director and Business Head of NewEdge InfoTech
Gh Ltd. I’m a business development professional
with a strong background in IT Training and
administration. I have more than a decade of
experience in the education sectors in India, Africa
and Latin America with significant experience in
Senior Management roles and leading institutional
academic delivery improvement. I have completed
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and
specialized in Education Data Mining.
Area of Expertise : Data Science, Web Mining, Education
Data Mining, and Social Media Marketing
HELLO!
4. CONTENTS OF THE SLIDE
• Define Research
• Role of Research
• Who Does the Research?
• What is research?
• What is not a research?
• Scope of Research
• Traditional research Methods
• Computer Science research methodology
• Research References
• Research Management Tools
• Survey Tools
• Data Collection Tool and Sites
• Web Scraping tools
• Flowchart on how to Read a research paper
• Flowchart on how to start my research paper.
5. Define Research
The word research is derived from the Middle French
"recherche", which means "to go about seeking", the term itself
being derived from the Old French term "recerchier" a compound
word from "re-" + "cerchier", or "sercher", meaning 'search'.The
earliest recorded use of the term was in 1577
INTRODUCTION
Noun : The systematic investigation into
and study of materials and sources in
order to establish facts and reach new
conclusions.
6. The research should be about some problem that encourages enthusiasm (for you)
and interest (for others)
Is often generated from the thought “what we’ve got now from past isn’t quite
right/good enough – we can do better..”
Consists of work that leads to a meaningful contribution and evaluates that
contribution.
Generates, in some way, a better solution to the problem – it advances the state of
the art
Needs to be and used to have an impact
Probably needs to be reviewed before most will consider using it.
Role of Research
Contents from Research Methods, Terrence E. Boult
7. ● Individuals
● Teams
Teams almost always make the process easier
● Feedback from team members
● Multiple skillset and division of labor
● Each member can work to own strengths
Who does the Research?
Contents from Research Methods, Terrence E. Boult
8. What is a research?
A Combination of investigation of past
work and effort in the present that will
help others in the future.
CHOOSETHE
BESTANSWER
A Set of opposites
• Fun and Frusturation
• Small steps and Large insights
• Building on others work and
contributing your own work
Finding or Developing something new
that impacts the world..
A
B
C
D All of the above.
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BESTANSWER
What is not a
research?
Playing with the technology
Book Reports
Programming Project
A
B
C
D Commercial Product Development
E Doing what others have already done
10. Work
Learn the process and
get started down the
path
Undergraduate
Work
Contribution expected
at national to world
level eg.
Postgraduate
Work
Contribution expected at
global/world level; eg.
-background investigation on all
work
Make meaningful addition to the
world knowledge
PhD
Scope of Research
11. TRADITIONAL RESEARCH METHODS
Research Methods
Exploratory
Research
Constructive
Research
Empirical
Research
Qualitative
Research
Quantitativ
e Research
Mixed
Research
15. Computer Science Research Methodology
Computing Science researchers use several methodologies to tackle questions within the
discipline. This discussion starts by listing several of these methodologies. The idea is not
to classify researchers or projects in each of these methodologies or to be exhaustive.
Tasks performed by a single researcher fall within different methodologies. Even the
activities required to tackle a single research question may include several of these
methodologies.
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18. Other Research Tools
Biowebspin Innocentive LifeScience.net MyScienceWork Research Connection Profology
Cureus Journal of Brief Ideas Linkedin nanoHUB ScienceExchange We Share Science
Direct2experts LabRoots Loop
Open Science
Framework SocialScienceSpace
Expertnet LabsExplorer MalariaWorld Piirus Speakezee
GlobalEventList LabWorm Mendeley Profeza Trellis
19. Use the Advanced search option (in the menu) to search in specific ‘fields’ or to limit results by year range.
These options won’t work optimally (see above), but it can help to limit the number of results.
How to use Google Scholar Effectively
Use Incognito window to open your Google Scholar to avoid
biased results.
20. Use the Advanced search option (in the menu) to search in specific ‘fields’ or to limit results by year range.
These options won’t work optimally (see above), but it can help to limit the number of results.
How to use Google Scholar Effectively
Use the Advanced search option (in the
menu) to search in specific ‘fields’ or to
limit results by year range. These options
won’t work optimally (see above), but it
can help to limit the number of results.
Use double quotation marks to search
for multiple words next to each other in
the specified order (like in compound
terms or an exact phrase), e.g., “climate
change” or “the impact of climate change
on food security”. Otherwise, Google
(Scholar) automatically combines multiple
words with the operator AND.
21. Use the Advanced search option (in the menu) to search in specific ‘fields’ or to limit results by year range.
These options won’t work optimally (see above), but it can help to limit the number of results.
How to use Google Scholar Effectively
Include alternative terms by using
the OR operator. In some cases
Google (Scholar) doesn’t include
obvious synonyms in your search.
With the OR operator you can
combine these terms and find more.
Instead of OR you can also use | (a
pipe), e.g., “heart|myocardial
infarction|attack” finds heart infarction,
myocardial infarction, heart attack and
myocardial attack.
Exclude specific terms by using the
– operator. You can exclude as many
terms as you want, e.g., mercury –ford
–freddy –outboards –planet.
Allintitle: Limit your search to terms
appearing in the title only, e.g.,
allintitle:”agaricus bisporus”.
Filetype: Limit your search to specific
file types by using filetype: or ext: E.g.,
“agaricus bisporus” filetype:pdf
22. Use the Advanced search option (in the menu) to search in specific ‘fields’ or to limit results by year range.
These options won’t work optimally (see above), but it can help to limit the number of results.
How to use Google Scholar Effectively
Site: Limit your search to certain websites
or domains. This can be useful for
websites without good search options,
e.g., “Education Data Mining”
site:springer.com. By searching within
certain domain extensions, you can limit
your search by country or type of
institution, e.g., “plant diseases” site:.edu
(academic institutions in the USA).
23. Use the Advanced search option (in the menu) to search in specific ‘fields’ or to limit results by year range.
These options won’t work optimally (see above), but it can help to limit the number of results.
How to use Google Scholar Effectively
Personalise your searching via Settings
and use other handy features of Google
Scholar. For example, make your own
library of references (called My Library),
create literature alerts, or let Google
Scholar show import citation links to
EndNote or another reference manager.
To use these options, you’ll need to sign in
with your Google account.
28. Others tools to help your research writing!
Statistical Tools
GraphPad
Easy Calculation
Daniel Soper
VassarStats
SocSciStatistics
SurfStat
29. Flowchart on How to Read a Paper?
Identify the
specific
question(s).
Identify the
approach.
Read the
results section.
Read the
methods
section.
Identify the big
question.
Summarize the
background in
five sentences
or less.
Read the
conclusion/disc
ussion/interpret
ation section.
Determine
whether the
results answer
the specific
question(s)
Begin by
reading the
introduction,
not the abstract
Go back to the
beginning and
read the
abstract
Find out what other researchers say about the paper.
30. IDEA
WRITE PAPER
DO RESEARCH
START WITH A
SURVEY
PAPER
BUILD A
MODEL TO
ADDRESS
YOUR
PROBLEM
FIND THE
RECENT
RESEARCHES,
PROBLEMS &
SOLUTIONS IN
YOUR TOPIC
How to start my research paper?
SELECT A
TOPIC OF
YOUR
INTEREST
IDEA
DO RESEARCH
WRITE PAPER
REWORK ON
THE
PROPOSED
MODEL TO
BETTER THE
SOLUTION
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