{"id":130953,"date":"2023-01-02T20:11:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.finxter.com\/?p=1031879"},"modified":"2023-01-02T20:11:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T20:11:18","slug":"a-python-script-to-uncover-creative-research-gaps-through-recombination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/02\/a-python-script-to-uncover-creative-research-gaps-through-recombination\/","title":{"rendered":"A Python Script to Uncover Creative Research Gaps Through Recombination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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5\/5 – (1 vote) <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

When I was a researcher at University, I had to come up with creative ideas at a rapid pace. Here’s a straightforward approach that may help you generate innovative concepts for your job, business, or research goals.<\/p>\n

My particular research focus was graph partitioning<\/a>, i.e., dividing a massive computer science graph structure into smaller chunks that can be distributed to multiple machines for parallel computing. <\/p>\n

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To find research ideas, I tried multiple things. One thing I tried was this simple Python script that helped me uncover interesting research gaps in my area of expertise. <\/p>\n

\"\ud83d\udca1\" You can easily modify it to help you generate unique ideas in your field!<\/p>\n

This code is writing the combination of concepts and properties to a file. The file is opened for writing, and for each concept, the properties are written with the concept appended to each line. After the last property for the concept, a new line is written to the file. This process is repeated for each concept before the file is closed.<\/p>\n

concepts = [\"GAS\", \"Edge-cut\", \"Vertex-cut\", \"BSP\"]\nproperties = [\"elastic\", \"geo-distributed\", \"GPU-based\", \"disk-based\", \"asynchronous\"] outfile = \"combinatoricalIdeas.dat\"\nwith open(outfile, \"w\") as out: for c in concepts: for p in properties: out.write(p + \" \" + c + \"\\n\") out.write(\"\\n\") <\/pre>\n
Here’s the output of my idea recombination framework for enhanced creativity \"\ud83d\ude06\":<\/p>\n
elastic GAS\ngeo-distributed GAS\nGPU-based GAS\ndisk-based GAS\nasynchronous GAS elastic Edge-cut\ngeo-distributed Edge-cut\nGPU-based Edge-cut\ndisk-based Edge-cut\nasynchronous Edge-cut elastic Vertex-cut\ngeo-distributed Vertex-cut\nGPU-based Vertex-cut\ndisk-based Vertex-cut\nasynchronous Vertex-cut elastic BSP\ngeo-distributed BSP\nGPU-based BSP\ndisk-based BSP\nasynchronous BSP\n<\/code>\n<\/pre>\n
The code simple combines nouns with adjectives or specifiers that are relevant in my particular domain. You don’t need to understand terms such as “BSP” or “Vertex-cut” to see that these are potentially interesting combinations of ideas.<\/p>\n
Many of them have never been researched by anybody! See the Google Scholar results of “Geo-Distributed Vertex-Cut”: <\/p>\n
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It is a 100% solid, perfect “research gap” that is open for the taking. The first paper filling it will surely contribute to the scientific community — even though it may not be super relevant. <\/p>\n
However, if you’re not interested in rocket science, this approach to finding “research gaps” through simple recombination of concepts in your area of expertise will surely give you some interesting food for thoughts!<\/p>\n
Here’s this same idea applied to find a great niche business:<\/p>\n
app = [\"decentralized app\", \"social network\", \"dating app\"]\ntarget = [\"gay people\", \"todlers\", \"rich people\", \"newly-weds\"] for a in app: for t in target: print(a, 'for', t) print()\n<\/pre>\n
The output:<\/p>\n
decentralized app for gay people\ndecentralized app for todlers\ndecentralized app for rich people\ndecentralized app for newly-weds social network for gay people\nsocial network for todlers\nsocial network for rich people\nsocial network for newly-weds dating app for gay people\ndating app for todlers\ndating app for rich people\ndating app for newly-weds<\/code><\/pre>\n
There are some really promising and fun ideas among those. Don’t underestimate the power of a simple idea recombination Python script! \"\ud83e\udd2f\"<\/p>\n
\"\ud83d\udcaa\" Action Step<\/strong>: Whatever your current area of expertise or interest. Create your own version of this simple yet powerful Python recombination script for inspiration!<\/p>\n
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5\/5 – (1 vote) When I was a researcher at University, I had to come up with creative ideas at a rapid pace. Here’s a straightforward approach that may help you generate innovative concepts for your job, business, or research goals. My particular research focus was graph partitioning, i.e., dividing a massive computer science graph […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[857],"tags":[73,468,528],"class_list":["post-130953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-python-tut","tag-programming","tag-python","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}