To prepare a Interim Report in Data science related to research

1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
3. Research Methodology(Finalise the techniques that we are using)

Introduction 13-15 pages
Literature review 20-25 pages
Methodology 20-25 pages


1. Literature Review

a) Should cover the purpose of the study(The theme/research contextualization)
b) Should guide reader to understand the importance of your domain.
c) You need to answer What, Why and sometimes where
d) First show the forest(context) and then focus on the tree(specific areas)
e) Explore published thesis, scientific papers.(peer reviewed)
f) Avoid blogs and newspaper articles in systematic literature reviews
g) Look for Survey Paper, if there is none. You have a good chance of publishing
the same based on SLR. You can check out related Survey papers instead.
h) Try to build a story line, talk about research gaps and challenges
i) Explore flowcharts and figures
j) Explain yourself: donot write something u are not confident about.
k) Donot be too much basis, donot be so much perfectionist(maintain a balance)
l) You can screen papers by their abstract and if that entice you read conclusion/future
recommendation as well.

2 Introduction

a) Theme of your research in brief
b) Set the Context of the problem and hypothesis
c) A scenario with key information to understand meaning of your objectives(should build
into motivation)
d) Highlight the gaps and how your research will contribute to these gaps
e) International and national implications
f) Introduction is not a literature review but its a glimpse of the total information
g) Last but not the lease present your general objective