Whpearson recently mentioned that people in some other online communities frequently ask "what are you working on?". I personally love asking and answering this question. I made sure to ask it at the Seattle meetup. However, I don't often see it asked here in the comments, so I will ask it:
What are you working on?
Here are some guidelines
- Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
- Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
- Talk about your goals for the project.
- Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
- Link to your work if it's linkable
I've been thinking about making this a regular occurrence as well. ~ Monthly seem about right?
Is motivation for your PhD related project is primarily to facilitate "evidenced based decision making"? Also, do you have a link?
Monthly is great! It'd be great to have regular progress updates from all the people in this thread. I'm part of a group in London that has biweekly meetings to do just that, and I think it's a great way of motivating people.
About my PhD stuff, I can point you to papers, but I'm not sure that's what you have in mind. I do have a software prototype but it has not been released as of yet. So far, I have been demoing it to interested people over skype. (I should probably record a screencast. You know what, I'll take that as an action item for the next thread.... (read more)