Plans and Goals

On this page the members of the VRL record and refine their goals for the current semester. This is a living document in which dhl will provide feedback. See the bottom of the page for links to past plans & goals documents.

Current Schedule

Meetings are on Mondays. The authoritative list is in dhl's calendar.

Current Plans and Goals (Fall '14)

Connor

• MAGI Collaboration
  • Submit to Nature Methods as co-author
  • Release GD3 genomics visualization library
  • By September 30 distribute MAGI to observation group

• Harvard Med Collaboration
  • September 19: Meet at HMS; outcome: list of specific potential projects
  • Oct 1: Decide on project and send out project outline
  • Demo functioning prototype by end of semester
  • Outcomes for us:
    • Technique paper on intelligent visual summarization (e.g., accordion mutation matrix attached) using measures like Hamming distance and then more complicated measures to intelligently bin data
    • Short paper on GD3, a generalized genomics visualization toolkit
    • Written log of scenarios and case studies supporting usefulness of an n-color palette generator
  • Less polished outcomes for us:
    • Technique for n-wise visualization comparison. Could use interactive filtering or a rendering option to show commonly wanted signatures in data
    • Technique for creating visualization thumbnails using 1000s of SV visualizations as one usage example
  • Outcomes for the compbio/bio folks:
    • Deployment of a flexible, reusable visualization library supporting common data formats that eliminates the need to write visualization code for many types of data (GD3)
    • Completion of an interactive tool for analyzing/exploring SV data, aimed at reducing the time spent generating and manually searching through all pairwise combination of SV algorithm output.
      • HMS post-doc said this accounted for 2/3 of his work over the past three months because there's no fast/automated way to do it right now, and it's inherently a visual-based task

• Graphical Perception
  • Have Karen/MTurk experiment results by Sep 12
  • Incorporate color saliency mapping into color palette model

• Other
  • Give a great talk at VIS
  • Redo website before VIS
  • Dissertation planning: by end of semester have a written plan on how to tie together graphical perception and genomics viz research

Ryan

• Complete thesis proposal
  • Form committee
  • Give proposal talk
• Work on papers
  • Submit bipolar paper with Dan
  • Contribute to Fauxvea work
• Continue work on neuroimaging collabs
  • Send quality checks for second timepoint STL data
  • Run image analysis for STL and SA studies
  • Maintain relationship with folks at RIH
  • Contribute to pubs from Rob Paul's group
• Thesis work
  • Run experiments comparing methods
  • Write TMI paper on multi-fiber processing

David

• good cs237
  • some new-cave projects rolling
• cave running and with demos and working in cs237
  • 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
• Bowman experiment run by Wesley

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Past Plans and Goals

• Spring-Summer '14
• Summer-Fall '13
• Spring '13
• Fall '12
• Summer '12
• Spring '12
• Summer-Fall '11
• Spring '11
• Summer-Fall '10
• Spring '10
• Fall '09
• Summer '09
• Spring '09
• Fall '08
• Summer '08