Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
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Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
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Re: Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
#2I wrote something similar while I was writing my diploma thesis, albeit not that visual. For me it was handy to see whether I was making any progress, so I regularly updated a CSV file with the current number of pages, lines, words, figures, code lines, and code comments. The idea was that on every day I did something I could at least look at the data and see how much (also the script automatically adjusted page, line and word count for the appendix which I didn't want to count).
Re: Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
#3That's really neat! I'm not sure if this is intentional because your work is private, but I would love it if I could click on the images or SHAs to go actually see the thing.
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#4That's really neat! I'm not sure if this is intentional because your work is private, but I would love it if I could click on the images or SHAs to go actually see the thing.
At the moment I'm a little hesitant to make it public. Partly because there's a large chunk of unpublished research in there, but also because some of the early drafts are a little embarrassing.
Perhaps when the thesis is deposited (and hence public) I could add that in for "historical" interest.
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#5Excellent! People writing important papers really should be using Git. When documents are extremely complex, previously removed portions can have pertinence later.
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#6That's an excellent solution for big problem in my country (not at PhD level though) namely plagiarism. Make students to use such system, turn autocommit on and you can see their progress and all deviations (big chunks of text appearing from nowhere etc.).
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#7That's really neat! I'm not sure if this is intentional because your work is private, but I would love it if I could click on the images or SHAs to go actually see the thing.
Yep, I instinctively clicked on one of the pages to see it bigger.
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#8Whilst not as slick as the JS version, I did much the same thing with mine: https://vimeo.com/76969179 when bored one day. I couldn't find any tools to create exactly what I wanted, so knocked up https://gist.github.com/archgrove/6766129, https://github.com/archgrove/PDFProofSheet, and a bunch of shell scripts to generate a folder of images. Fed this lot into iMovie, and voila.
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#9While you mention that you are hesitant to release the content of the dissertation prematurely, could you instead release the build tools you used to make your "flatplans"?
It would be a huge help to those of us about to write our dissertations :-)
Re: Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime
#10While you mention that you are hesitant to release the content of the dissertation prematurely, could you instead release the build tools you used to make your "flatplans"? It would be a huge help to those of us about to write our dissertations :-)
The code is horrible, but it's here: https://github.com/hds/repo-flatplan-animation
You'll find the JS bits in the repository for the website which is there too.