Blog & Advice

Advice

• Operations job market advice: a step-by-step guide I wrote while on the academic job market.

The following is a very partial list of things written others that I've found useful -- thank you to the authors!

• Guidelines for Academic Requesters on Mechanical Turk, WeAreDynamo
• A Guide To Using Corporate Data for Academic Research, Andrey Fradkin
• The Unwritten Rules Of PhD Research, Marian Petre and Gordon Rugg
• You and Your Research, Richard Hamming
• A Few Tips On Writing Papers With Mathematical Content, John Tsitsiklis
• How NOT to review a paper: the tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer, Graham Cormode
• Many good links at the bottom of the page here, on how to do and present research. (Somewhat focused on CS theory)
• Michael Bernstein on Velocity and Vectoring in research: useful tips on how (and why) to prototype on the biggest risks to your research.

Software I use

• How I create plots in Python, including LaTeX support for text
• arXiv LaTeX cleaner. Removes comments and readies tex folder for arXiv.
• Tool to find grammar, spelling, and style mistakes in LaTeX. Gracefully handles tex files that input other tex files.
• Usage: textidote --output html main.tex > report.html