Writing the Report
Hello everyone! Now that I’ve covered almost all of the project, I want to share a little about my final product.
I have been working on a report since last year that covers the background, my experiments, and the results of the project. This blog covers a lot of what the structure of the report will look like, but I will go into more detail on the report. I also won’t be able to go super far into detail during my presentation, so this report will be a more complete overview of the research.
To write the report, I’m using LaTeX, a typesetting language, inside an online editor called Overleaf. LaTeX allows almost complete customization of the format and style of a document, and it’s great for displaying tables, images, and equations, as well as keeping track of references. With Overleaf, I can see an overview of everything I’m working on almost in real time. In the picture below, I can reference the label of an image I’ve added. The text will say “As shown in Figure 3.2…” and the number will automatically change depending on where the image is in the document.
In LaTeX, you can import packages that add extra features. One very useful package is BibLaTeX, which keeps track of citations. I can keep all my sources in a bibliography file, then simply type something like \cite{Yasaka_Onoda_2003} and it will automatically update as I write the rest of the document.