FDP Lecture: AI Tools for Research Methodology

⏳ Duration: 90 Minutes
🎯 Objective: To introduce AI-powered tools that enhance research methodology, covering literature review, hypothesis development, data collection, analysis, writing, and presentation.

📌 Session Outline

1️⃣ Introduction: AI in Research Methodology

Define Research?
What is Research Methodology?
- Key steps: Problem identification → Literature Review → Hypothesis → Data Collection → Analysis → Conclusion.
Role of AI in Research
- Automating literature search.
- Enhancing data analysis.
- Improving academic writing & publishing.

2️⃣ AI for Literature Review & Hypothesis Development (15 min)

🔹 Google Scholar & Semantic Scholar – AI-driven paper recommendations.
🔹 Elicit – AI-assisted research paper summarization.
🔹 ResearchRabbit & Connected Papers – Exploring related research.
🔹 Scite.ai – AI-based citation checking (supporting vs. contradicting evidence).

💡 Demo: Using Elicit to summarize a research paper and Connected Papers to find related work.

3️⃣ AI for Research Design & Data Collection (15 min)

🔹 ChatGPT / Claude / Bard – Generating research questions & methodologies.
🔹 SurveyMonkey & Qualtrics – AI-assisted survey creation.
🔹 Web Scraping with Python (BeautifulSoup, Selenium) – Automating data collection.
🔹 AI for Experimental Design (MATLAB, PyCaret, IBM Watson) – Optimizing research experiments.

💡 Demo: Generating a structured survey questionnaire using ChatGPT and analyzing survey responses. [Perplexity , Deep Seek, Deep Seek Primer ]

4️⃣ AI for Data Analysis & Interpretation (20 min)

🔹 Python (Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn) – AI-powered statistical analysis.
🔹 SPSS, Stata, R – AI-assisted predictive modeling & statistical computing.
🔹 Tableau & Power BI – AI-driven data visualization.
🔹 ChatGPT Code Interpreter / MATLAB – Automating data interpretation.

💡 Demo: Simple statistical analysis using Python (Pandas + Matplotlib) and visualization with Tableau, Python Tutorials

5️⃣ AI for Research Writing & Plagiarism Detection (15 min)

🔹 ChatGPT, Claude, Llama – Drafting research papers.
🔹 QuillBot & Grammarly – Paraphrasing & improving writing quality.
🔹 DeepL & Google Translate – AI for multilingual research.
🔹 Turnitin & Copyscape, copyleaks – AI-powered plagiarism detection.

💡 Demo: Improving readability and paraphrasing a research abstract using QuillBot & Grammarly.

6️⃣ AI for Presentations & Scientific Publishing (10 min)

🔹 Tome & Gamma – AI-generated research slides.
🔹 Canva & Beautiful.ai – Designing visually appealing presentations.
🔹 Overleaf (LaTeX) & ChatGPT – AI-assisted formatting of research papers.
🔹 Paperpile & Zotero – AI-powered citation & reference management.

💡 Demo: Creating an AI-generated research slide using gamma

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7️⃣ Ethical Considerations & Limitations (10 min)

Plagiarism & AI-generated content – Responsible AI use.
Bias & Accuracy in AI tools – Verification of AI-generated insights.[Google What-If tool]
Future of AI in Research Methodology – Emerging trends.

Demo : Quetext