CS765 - Data Visualization - Fall 2017
Everyone who turned in a draft should have gotten some (limited) feedback as a comment on Canvas. (note: I may not see any replies you make to those).
There is a link to a long list of common comments I made on assignments, so you can see the kinds of things I noticed on some assignments. (the list is here).
I also just posted a draft “rubric” that will give you a sense of the kinds of things we will be looking for in grading.
Everyone who turned in a draft should have gotten some (limited) feedback as a comment on Canvas. (note: I may not see any replies you make to those)
To help you decide how to finalize your DC2, here is the draft of the grading rubric. It will hopefully give you some idea as to what we are looking for when we do grading.
In doing grading, most of the grade will be on the “final” project, however…
No project is expected to excel in all areas. A project should get into the top score in a few categories and/or middle scores in a lot of categories.
I wanted to get some feedback to people quickly – so the individual feedback isn’t as extensive as I may have hoped. So instead, I am giving the feedback collectively. Each draft should get a comment in the handin – at least with a link to this posting.
Note: the 4/4 means you turned something in. It’s check/no check grading for the drafts.
Overall, I am very impressed by the quick scan that I did – there is a great diversity of assignments, and people are succeeding in many different ways. There are lots of different designs, and considerations of different tasks. Many assignments show some really good, deep thinking.
While going through assignments, I made a list of comments I would make. Some of these may apply to you. Even if I specified one or more, the others may be relevant as well. Or maybe you can see some of the problems that you don’t have.
Each is written about one design – it could be one of your designs have this problem, or that many do.
Or, it could be that your work doesn’t actually have this problem, I just thought it did at a quick glance.
(some critiques may be about the set of designs)
Last week, you got by without me – hopefully making lots of progress on Design Challenge 2, and learning about text visualization, and getting some practice with a design exercise.
Last week, I was at a workshop on bridging databases and visualization. It is in some ways very appropriate to this week’s topics.
This week, we’ll talk about scalability. It’s been lurking the whole time, and we’ll discuss it head on. Monday we’ll talk about dealing with large data sets. Wednesday we’ll talk about high dimensional data sets.
No class Friday because it’s a holiday.
I had forgotten to create a Canvas discussion for Design Challenge 2 questions. Fortunately, a student did it themselves. I have answered their questions – which may hopefully help others.
The discussion is at: https://canvas.wisc.edu/courses/66251/discussion_topics/162806
I may have limited internet access until Monday, so I may not be able to respond to other questions.
Last week, we talked about interaction and did an in class exercise about airline route maps – without interaction.
This week, we’ll continue the design exercise to expand to consider interaction, and some other things (like hints for the design challenge). On Wednesday, we’ll talk about text visualization.
Yes, the reading is not connected to lectures. Too many topics, too little time…
The reading for this week is intentionally light so you can focus on design challenge 2.
This past week, we talked about human perception and color. We didn’t do any design exercises. Design Challenge 2 is well under way.
This coming week, we’ll talk about interaction. And we’ll do some design exercise in class. And you’ll keep working on Design Challenge 2.
There will be no class on Friday.
The grader has compiled a long list of abstract tasks from your DC2 Phase 1 assignments.
For parts 2,3 and 4 you can use tasks that you came up with – or you can look through the long list for more ideas.
The long is is a page on Canvas.
As I mentioned in class today, there will be no class on Friday 11/3 (originally, the calendar had said “optional”).
We’ll also skip the other optional Friday classes later in the semester.
I had mentioned the possibility of office hours on Fridays during the class time slot: I need to make this “by appointment only.” My regular office hours on Wednesdays (2:30-3:30) stand, and I can make other times work by appointment. (except for the week I am out of town). I will be out of town 11/10-11/17 (inclusive) – but should be responsive to email.
There will probably be one guest lecture during the week I am away – stay tuned for details.
I made some changes to the Design Challenge 2 description. One clarification, and one change.
They are highlighted in blue on the assignment page.
Briefly:
11/1/2017 – Clarification: for phase 2, you can use the abstract tasks you turned in in phase 1. If you you want to do tasks defined by others, you can pick those as well. We will try to get a list of tasks compiled from student phase 1s out quickly so you can get more ideas beyond what you did in phase 1.
11/1/2017 – Schedule Change: we are extending the final deadline from November 19th to November 26th, although (1) the deadline will be hard (we won’t accept assignments more than a few days late), (2) you still need to turn in a “draft” for November 19th so we can get a sense of what you are turning in. I didn’t want to make an assignment due over Thanksgiving, but think of it as due before Thanksgiving, with a grace period. More details in blue below.
(if you prefer to think of it this way: … The deadline is still the 19th, we’re just giving a clearer and more lenient late policy, with the ability to “resubmit” if you want to update your assignment).
Warning: it may take a few days for the course calendar and canvas to be updated with the new deadlines.