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I am a bachelor-level (software engineering) student. I made a GitHub repository more than a year ago, where I use machine learning and deep learning to identify movements in accelerometer signals.

As of now, the GitHub repository has a thousand stars. There is already research being made derived from my work. As a practical example, here I collaborated with someone to write a paper.

I wonder: Should I write and publish a paper on the first project, even though it's a year old? What are my options, if any?

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    Can you please edit your question to elaborate what would would constitute the novelty of your paper? The software itself, the employed algorithms, or something else?
    – Wrzlprmft ♦
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 6:19
  • I don't understand the title.
    – Dilworth
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 12:52
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    At the end of my graduate career, my undergraduate advisor finally got around to publishing the work I helped do as an undergraduate—six years earlier! So being a year old isn't a problem!
    – aeismail
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 15:25

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Yes, you can publish a paper, if

  • you have new ideas in your software that you developed yourself.
  • the ideas have not been published by you before.

If other people who have used your software also documented your ideas, cite them.

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I agree with the other answer provided here, but I would also attempt to seek either (preferably) Academic or Industrial advice (companies have their own R&D departments and publish their own papers).

A Professor can give you hands on advice to approach publishing the paper in a specific manner to make your ideas stand out and justify their importance and relevance.

Congrats btw.

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