Writing project proposals

Writing project proposals#

In this exercise we take the Recommendations for Flood Risk Maps (in German) (licensed CC-BY 4.0 by LAWA Ausschuss Hochwasserschutz und Hydrologie and contributors) to develop a project proposal for a master thesis. Along the path, we will investigate which Python/R libraries might be useful for this kind of data visualization.

  • Start by downloading the document linked above.

  • Upload it to the Chat-App of your choice. Not all services support uploading long documents. You can use ChatGPT savely with this document, because the document is shared under a permissive license.

Start with a prompt such as

I need a 1-2-page project description for a master thesis. 
Goal of the project is to develop R-code for 
generating flood risk maps of certain types.

Potential result:

If the response is very long, modify the prompt.

  • Guide the LLM about the structure of the text. Provide sub-headlines

  • Guide the LLM for the target audience: What background should potential candidates have? Computer science or earth/environmental science?

  • Ask the LLM to provide recommendations for potential Python/R libraries which could be used for programming the flood risk map visualization.