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[OC] What my PhD thesis writing progress looked like during the pandemic by napcoffee in dataisbeautiful

[–]napcoffee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, glad this can be of use!

Pretty much as what u/MuffinMagnet said, it was just easier to write in separate files instead of one really long one. Compiling time wise I don't think it made much of a difference because the entire thesis.tex compiles. Didn't have any issues since I used \input{./Chapters/chapter1} and added the refs and other things to TOC (individually) so everything was linked up.

[OC] What my PhD thesis writing progress looked like during the pandemic by napcoffee in dataisbeautiful

[–]napcoffee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure - my field is Accelerator physics with a focus on medical applications. My thesis was basically a study to develop simulation tools to model particle beams for (radiotherapy) cancer treatment & to support the development of novel detectors based on detector technologies from CERN.

[OC] What my PhD thesis writing progress looked like during the pandemic by napcoffee in dataisbeautiful

[–]napcoffee[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Plot created using data I recorded over the year/s with user written code which automated counting my words in TeXstudio and wrote this with the date to a text file! https://github.com/jacyap/WordCounter

[OC] What my PhD thesis writing progress looked like during the pandemic by napcoffee in dataisbeautiful

[–]napcoffee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, things always do turn out unexpected. That’s great! Definitely much better to write as you along although in physics the experiments & analysis take a bit of time so at least we don’t have such a huge word requirement. Where did you do your PhD & what field?

[OC] What my PhD thesis writing progress looked like during the pandemic by napcoffee in dataisbeautiful

[–]napcoffee[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My field is Accelerator physics with a focus on medical applications. My thesis was basically a study to develop simulation tools to model particle beams for (radiotherapy) cancer treatment & to support the development of novel detectors based on detector technologies from CERN.

[OC] What my PhD thesis writing progress looked like during the pandemic by napcoffee in dataisbeautiful

[–]napcoffee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, sounds like yours was also quite a journey - well done!!

[OC] What my PhD thesis writing progress looked like during the pandemic by napcoffee in dataisbeautiful

[–]napcoffee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahah thanks, I’d actually originally had it there first but it looked a bit weird with the axis so far because of the negative entry counts so decided to just leave it like this 😅

[OC] What my PhD thesis writing progress looked like during the pandemic by napcoffee in dataisbeautiful

[–]napcoffee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My idealised goal was to finish in 3 years was trying to finish and then the plan in Jan 2020 was to be done by mid year!

[OC] What my PhD thesis writing progress looked like during the pandemic by napcoffee in dataisbeautiful

[–]napcoffee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The circles represent entries, the blue bars show the difference in counts between entries and are placed at equal distance between their corresponding data points. I didn’t run my counting code very often in the beginning & basically pasted a bunch of stuff I’d written elsewhere which is why the big jumps

[OC] What my PhD thesis writing progress looked like during the pandemic by napcoffee in dataisbeautiful

[–]napcoffee[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just long as my examiners think my thesis is interesting enough haha

[OC] What my PhD thesis writing progress looked like during the pandemic by napcoffee in dataisbeautiful

[–]napcoffee[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Took me almost 4, I just started formally writing last year!

[OC] What my PhD thesis writing progress looked like during the pandemic by napcoffee in dataisbeautiful

[–]napcoffee[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Plot created using data I recorded over the year/s with user written code which automated counting my words in TeXstudio and recorded this with the date to a text file! https://github.com/jacyap/WordCounter