[Haskell-cafe] Suggestions for an empirical master thesis

[Jon Kristensen]

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 <info at jonkri.org> wrote:
>> 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
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