Plans and Goals/Spring 2015

Plans and Goals (Spring '15)

Connor

Boldfaced goals are those that mark the high-level success of each project.

Genomics VIS Project

• By 1/12 (over break):
  • change abstract to be more of a paper abstract and less of a book abstract
  • make paper skeleton with clear evaluation plans, methods, and expected results
  • determine if making the GD3 Notebook as a third tool is manageable given pre-VIS workload
• By 1/19: Complete and freeze GD3 v1 visualization library development
  • Don't do more than bringing refactored library up to existing capabilities.
• By 1/19: E-mail and recruit >=5 experts for each tool that is being evaluated
• By 2/2: Have all experts scheduled and have the evaluations set in stone and methods/procedure written into paper draft
• By 2/20: Have all evaluation completed and coded
• By 3/9: E-mail David a complete, rough paper draft for VIS submission
• By 3/16: Send out revised draft to all authors
• By 3/21: Submit abstract to VIS and have a paper draft that is submittable
• By 3/31: Submit genomics viz paper to VIS ✓

Color palette picker

• By 1/12 (over break):
  • Brainstorm a list of possible evaluations with total >= 5 possible evaluations
  • Send an abstract to Karen and David and a one-paragraph description of the evaluation plan
  • Write paper skeleton
• By 1/19: Finish tool
• By 1/26: Have a meeting/demo with David and Karen to get feedback on evaluation
• By 1/26: Run pilot MTurk evaluations on discerinability and preference
• By 2/9: Have complete data from MTurk discernability and preference evaluations
• By 3/2: E-Mail David and Karen a complete, rough paper draft for VIS submission
• By 3/16: Have a submittable draft ready
• By 3/21: Submit abstract to VIS
• By 3/31: Submit color palette paper to VIS ✓

Continuous Colormaps

• By 1/26: Meet with David and Karen about project (joint with color palette modeling)
• By 1/26: Freeze data collection
• By 2/19: Have a complete, rough paper draft for VIS submission
• By 3/21: Submit abstract to VIS
• By 3/31: Submit color map paper to VIS ✓
  • Deferred

Post-VIS Goals to 15 May (semester end)

• By 4/20: Have statistics wrapped up for color modeling project
• By 4/20: Write lessons learned document from the two VIS submissions
• By 5/11: Have a written outline of a proposal organization
• By 5/11: Post summer goal list

Other

• E-mail updates more than you think you need to (i.e., weekly updates)
• Sign up for Sheridan Center's teaching certification for Fall 2015 semester
  • Deadline and form activation is in July
• Work on the outcome of the MAGI submission to Nature Methods ✓
• Practice fast writing

Hua

• Thesis proposal
  • Send proposal to committee members by 1/21 [done]
  • Revised the document to address Jeff's feedback by 2/7
    • Finish the interaction dimension based on literature review by 1/27
    • Incorporate Pearl's work on causation into analysis methods if appropriate by 2/2
    • Revise the methods section to merge two studies by 2/7
  • Revised the document to address Steven's feedback by 2/7
  • Schedule a date by 2/15
  • Give the proposal talk by 3/31

• Interaction history analysis paper
  • Finish preliminary analysis with Markov chain and action / component frequency features by 1/31
  • First paper draft done and ask for Caroline's feedback by 2/21
  • Submit abstract by 3/21
  • Submit to VIS by 3/31
  • Give a Scivis talk on 4/14

• BraiNet
  • Interface redesign sketched out by 2/28

• Edge uncertainty paper
  • Address reviewer comments after receiving feedback

Steve

• Have a good job lined up for the fall ✓
  • Keep list of jobs/postdoc opportunities up-to-date ✓
  • Send out applications ✓
  • Research statement by end of January ✓
  • Do a practice job talk by end of January ✓
  • Do a good interview at MIT/LL on Feb 12/13 ✓
• Finish project about integrating automatic evaluations with git
  • Clean up MTurk scripts to link into git hook by end of January ✓
  • Run case study on alternative vis designs from our VAST 2014 paper by end of Feb mid March
  • Submit VIS paper by end of March
• Resubmit TVCG Fauxvea paper with major revision
  • Plan for revisions by 3/2 ✓
  • Deadline for major revision is May 26
• Dissertation
  • Tex with outline in private GitHub repo by 10/1 ✓
  • Follow chapter schedule in my Brown GS 6th-year proposal (DCP)
    • By 3/31, draft Chapter 6: Crowdsourced Evaluation Framework (from new experiment)
    • By 3/9, outline Chapter 7: Conclusions
    • By 3/16, outline Chapter 1: Introduction
    • By 3/23, outline Chapter 2: Background ✓
    • By end of April, draft of full document done and circulated to committee
    • Run through the thesis checklist
    • By August, defense!
• Misc
  • Help David and Hua successfully submit NSF grant, deadline on 1/12 ✓
  • Due my reviews/coordinating as a CHI Works-in-progress PC member, wrapped up by 1/29 ✓
  • Check up on TVCG paper submitted last semester: any revisions needed? ✓
  • Make at least one of my private github repos into a public one ✓

Ryan

• South Africa
  • results created and shared
  • include multi-fiber methods
• Dan pediatric bipolar
  • complete paper writing
  • include region segmentation methods
  • consider potential additional pubs
• Edinburgh
  • make data resource paper
  • option: multi-fiber atlas?
  • option: reproducing aging studies, e.g. STL FBL
• Multi-fiber estimation
  • put on finishing touches on journal paper and submit
• Thesis writing
  • make some progress on introduction

David

• cave running and with demos and working for may opening
  • cavePainting, advisor, cs137 examples, VT project
  • hw and low-level software testing/reliability plan
  • application software development easier
• longer-term funding progress
  • some specific targets for proposals: cave, cognition, expedition, brains
• full Bowman experiment run by Wesley and/or Johannes in Yurt
• good CS16
• keep all advisees moving along appropriately

Johannes

Coursework

• HCI Seminar
• Introduction to Data Science
• (Vagabonding) Introduction to Machine Learning

CAVE/YURT

• By 2/2, Discuss current results with VT and Bireswar
  • Update experiment script vs. keeping current users
• By 2/8, fix 90/270 degree virtual walls in VRUI
• By 2/15, continue user study at Granoff CAVE
• By 2/21, setup complete evaluation framework for statistical significant effects
  • in Google docs or repository to share with Wallace
• By 3/14, complete 32 users at Granoff CAVE and YURT
• By 3/21, integrate Scalable into VRUI with Wesley
• By 4/13, publication outline and draft for introduction and background sections
• By 4/20, complete all 64 users
• By 5/5, paper draft

Collaborations

• By mid February, set up meetings with prospective collaborators
  • Dereck Merck - 5 minute presentation on 3D US smart visibility at radiology meeting
  • Kristi Wharton - time series confocal microscopy data in the cave
  • search for more collaborators
• By mid February, complete paper for Computers & Geosciences

Tom

• yurt
  • ready for grand opening in May
• wrist/thumb
  • keeping them running and happy
  • some other pending thing?
  • merging the branch of wristVis (Alicia's version, and some others)
• gfxtest, et al
  • how do we get it running?
  • can we make it work like the old doc? (sounds like some compromises and requirement analysis may be needed)