Re: [Haskell-cafe] Suggestions for an empirical master thesis

Hi, Mehmet! Thank you for your suggestion! I think that I will need to describe some concrete goals, and provide some evidence from literature that the area includes, or is related to, particular scientific and engineering challenges. I will take a look at related papers about this, but any thoughts on it would be welcome! Best, Jon On 08/05/2016 02:28 PM, Suzen, Mehmet wrote:

Jon,

Why don't you do some graph analysis on the entire hackage using the metadata? Build a graph and analyse its statistical properties.

Best, -m

On 4 August 2016 at 21:15, Jon Kristensen wrote:

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Hi, everyone!

I'm looking for a master thesis topic that is empirical in nature (like, statistics, hypothesis testing, etc.).

The work could involve analyzing either package metadata (Cabal information), code (AST), and/or data from some other source, possibly comparing similar data from some non-Haskell domain.

As an example, one idea that was suggested to me was to look at usage aggregation, or like, how much of a given package another package is actually using (which could be relevant in any orphan-instance discussion).

From an academic standpoint, it would be good to pick a metric that can be validated in some way.

Thank you!

Best, Jon _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to: http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.