OrganisationComputing

Extras

Tips and Tricks for DPhil life

DH56

October 10, 2011

DH56 Tips and Tricks for DPhil life

OrganisationComputing

Extras

Organisation

• Date and number your pages or use a notebook

• Write in meetings / write up meetings

• Use referencing software• Bibtex• Mendeley / Refworks / Citeulike / Referencer

• Keep track of the research skills things you’ve done

• Keep a record of ideas you have about future directions

• Backup your work! The university / maths institute has goodback-up systems

• Write up work as you go

• Throw away work that is wrong

DH56 Tips and Tricks for DPhil life

OrganisationComputing

Extras

Computing

• Scratch drive / Networked scratch drives (/mi/share/scratch)

• Subversioning (RabbitSVN is installed on the MI computers)

• Dropbox (check the terms of use!)

• Call your files sensible things

• In matlab:• Ask around if you’re trying to do something - often other

people will know how!• Use sensible names for your variables• Comment your code• Mex functions

• You can ssh into the maths institute computers(http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/help/remote-access)

• http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/help for useful computinginformation

DH56 Tips and Tricks for DPhil life

OrganisationComputing

Extras

Extras

• Conferences

• Study Groups

• Teaching / TAing

• Bionumbers

• SMB / ESMTB can give conference money if you join

• Socials

DH56 Tips and Tricks for DPhil life

Annotating figures by trial and error

Henry Shum

10 October 2011

Figures made in MATLAB:

I Ugly font

I Limited TEX options for special symbols/typesetting

I Pixellated text if rasterised

I May need to be rescaled for your article – font sizes willchange

My solution (not optimised):

I Create plots without annotations using MATLAB

I Add annotations using overpic package in a LATEX editor

I (Some fiddling will be needed to put things in the right place)

Figures made in MATLAB:

I Ugly font

I Limited TEX options for special symbols/typesetting

I Pixellated text if rasterised

I May need to be rescaled for your article – font sizes willchange

My solution (not optimised):

I Create plots without annotations using MATLAB

I Add annotations using overpic package in a LATEX editor

I (Some fiddling will be needed to put things in the right place)

MATLAB output with no annotations:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{report}

\special{papersize=120mm,40mm} % Figure size

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{fullpage}

\usepackage{psfragx}

\usepackage{overpic}

\setlength{\hoffset}{-1.33in} % Adjust image position

\setlength{\voffset}{-1.85in} %

\begin{document}

\begin{overpic}[trim = 24mm 0mm 0mm 0mm,clip]{bactmodelbare}

%% Our annotations

\put(48.5,7.7){$x$}

\put(48.1,18.1){$y$}

\put(41.1,21.6){$z$}

.

.

.

\end{overpic}

\end{document}

Final, correctly sized, annotated figure:

x

yz

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2aB2

2aB3

∼ 2/kE

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Pomodoro technique

TMUX (terminal multiplexer): ● tmux.sourceforge.net

● Cheat sheet:

www.dayid.org/os/notes/tm.html

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