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== Plans and Goals (Spring '15) ==

=== [[User:Connor Gramazio|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

=== [[User:Hua Guo|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

=== [[User:Steven Gomez|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 '''<s>end of Feb</s> 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 [[Media:DCP_steveg_sanitized.pdf|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 [http://cs.brown.edu/degrees/doctoral/proposal/Thesis_Proposal_Checklist.pdf 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 ✓

=== [[User:Ryan Cabeen|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

=== [[User:David Laidlaw|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

=== [[User:Wesley Miller|Wesley]] ===

=== [[User:Johannes Novotny|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

=== [[User:Tom Sgouros|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)

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