The Week in Vis: Week 13 (Nov 28-Dec2): Evaluation

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The week after Thanksgiving… we can sortof get back to a normal schedule.

This topic for this week is Evaluation. I’ll talk about it in lecture on Monday. The readings are important. You can read them before lecture or after (I’ll go through the main points - it’s stuff you will need to see more than once). The readings are very reduced for the project. But, there will be a “Design Excercise” related to both the project and the readings for the following week.

For Wednesday’s lecture, the topic is “the random stuff that doesn’t fit anywhere else.” It might be more on evaluation. I may talk about 3D and animation - because there is simply no other day to talk about them, and I feel a need to talk about them. Or maybe I’ll talk about the SciVis topics that we simply don’t get time to cover in class, but I feel must be at least mentioned in a Vis class.

In terms of the project: there is a “check in” this week - it’s officially due on Tuesday, but it is OK if you turn it in before Friday Dec 2. That will give you more time to make progress. Note: only one member per team needs to fill out the form, but all team members should do the survey to indicate who is doing the form for them.

Coming up… next week we’ll talk about graphs (as in the data type), which is a big topic. There will be DE12: Evaluation - where you will use your project to review the Nested Model, and you will continue to make progress on your project, since it is due the last week of classes.