CS 424 Week 6

We are going to spend a week looking at various ways that people visualized the data from Project 1. There are always multiple ways to solve a visualization problem and this lets you see several alternatives that you may not have thought of, or may have thought of but couldn't figure out how to implement. As you look at the interactive visualizations and listen to the presentations, compare the presenter's solution to yours. What did you do better? What did that person do better? How would you improve your solution based on what you are seeing?

I would prefer that every student presents their work to the class, but given the class size that will be impractical, so we will spend the Tuesday class after the project is due meeting in groups of 4 where each student will show their solution to their group, and the group will discuss the merits of each solution. By the end of Tuesday's class each group will produce a report (including names of all the group members) on what specific things the group liked about each member's solution and make that available on one of the group member's public web pages, and email the location of that page to andy. There should be one page of positives about each of the project solutions and these should be specific, e.g. just saying 'good layout' is not specific, but talking about how X is next to Y and Z is the same size as R and how that makes it easy to do T is specific. Each group will also choose an overall favorite solution to present on Thursday. On Tuesday the groups can meet in person in the classroom or meet online or in some combination, but I highly highly recommend at least one member of each group be in the classroom to practice interacting with the chosen favorite solution so the demo on Thursday will go smoothly. If a member of your group does not participate then note that in your report at the end of class.

We should have roughly 10 groups of 4 students each on Tuesday, likely 2 groups of graduate students and 8 groups of undergraduate students, and I will assign those groups based on who turns in Project 1

Group #	Members
1	Magnadia Ranganathan Chelakkarai Sivaraman
2	Chintakunta Jogi Omar
3	Patel Mehta Jakvani Nath
4	Saxena Grams Yelyubayeva Kao
5	Qi Nunez Lau Awan
6	Asuncion Parovyi Elliott Fernandez Lezama
7	Genova Mullenkuzhiyil Sunny Handowo
8	Arica Kodithyala Martin
9	Zeng Hussain Kmita Kushwah

(I tried to name everyone by their family name; if I made a mistake please let me know and I will correct it)

On Thursday each group will have 5 minutes to present their group's favorite solution and discuss what they liked about it on the classroom wall using the touch screen interface.

This week is also a very good time to find people to work with on Project's 2 and 3 based on the work they show in class and all of the solutions posted on the Project 1 webpage.

Week 6

Project 1 Presentations

Coming Next Time