: Presenting a plethora of technical parameters in a thesis I'm writing my masters thesis at the moment. The topic of my thesis is the evaluation of one classification algorithm. Due to its technical

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The usual approach is a set of tables. This is a paper, you don't try to be interesting, you want to be informative.

If you don't want the "main gist" to be lost among plethora of tables, you can perform a top-down "decomposition", where after introduction of methodology you present first a brief summary of results (which you then repeat in the "Conclusion" section at the end), and then follow up with how you arrived at these, through tables of various experiments, one chapter/section per experiment, as many tables as relevant to the experiment included.

Regardless of all, tables are the usual flesh of any scientific papers on experiments, presenting their results. Methodology, background, theory, that's all "fluff" that helps people in understanding the results, proves their validity and roots them in the "general image", but they read the paper for these results, and these will appear either as tables, or as graphs, which, while more evocative, are less precise (so you may include both.)

Look up some white papers on material engineering. A typical approach is two-three pages of "background", followed by 50 pages of tables.

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