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 (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
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
- Work on the outcome of the MAGI submission to Nature Methods
- Practice fast writing
Hua
- Thesis proposal
- Finalize committee members
- Send proposal to committee members
- Give a practice talk
- Edge uncertainty paper
- Submit to TVCG
- Aardvark system evaluation
- Run 12 participants by Sep.26
- Finish the analysis of the first 12 participants by Sep.30
- Wrap up and finish the final report by Oct.15
- Further analyze the data using various techniques, e.g. sub-graph extractions and sequence visualizations to identify analysis strategies and relate features to insight generation
- Crowd gaze paper
- Help with the TVCG submission
- BraiNet
Steve
- Finish crowd-eyetracking project
- Follow-up MTurk experiment run by 9/12, data analyzed by 9/24 with Radu ✓
- Circulate updated TVCG draft with results by 9/30 and submit
early October✓
- Integrating automatic evaluations with github
- Clean up MTurk scripts to link into git hook by
midend of October [in progress] - Run case study on alternative vis designs from our VAST 2014 paper by end of November
- Draft VIS paper by mid December
- Submit end of March
- Clean up MTurk scripts to link into git hook by
- Assist Hua with Aptima study and report
- Report due to Aptima by mid October ✓
- Outline of paper on individual differences in visualization by end of October
- Have a good VAST task in Paris (11/9-11/16)
- Iterate on presentation several times, practice at scivis on 10/28 ✓
- Practice talk at Tufts on 10/29 ✓
- Network with colleagues at conference ✓
- Have a job next fall!
- List of postdoc opportunities compiled before Paris trip, by 11/5 [in progress]
- Teaching statement from notes by end of September ✓
- Research statement by end of November (when git study wraps up)
- Dissertation
- Tex with outline in private GitHub repo by 10/1 ✓
- Follow chapter schedule in my Brown GS 6th-year proposal (DCP)
- By 12/8, draft Chapter 3: Modeling Task Performance with Non-Experts (from CHI '12 paper) ✓
- By 12/15, draft Chapter 4: Modeling Gaze Behaviors with Non-Experts (from TVCG paper in submission) ✓
- By 12/22, draft Chapter 5: Measuring Insights and Task Performance for Visual Analytics (from VAST '14 paper)
- By 1/12, draft Chapter 6: Crowdsourced Evaluation Framework (from new experiment)
- By 1/19, draft Chapter 7: Conclusions
- By 1/26, draft Chapter 1: Introduction
- By 2/9, draft Chapter 2: Background
- By 3/2, draft 2 of full document done and circulated to committee
- By mid March, set defense date and time, run through the thesis checklist
- By mid April, defense!
- 5/1: Hard deadline for dissertation submission, "apply to graduate" on Banner
- Misc
- Be a helpful TA for CS237 ✓
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
Wesley
Johannes
- complete CSCI2370 Interdisciplinary Scientific Visualization
- get some experience working with the CAVE (and if possible YURT)
- complete CSCI2951-B Data-Driven Vision and Graphics
- complete Programming Comps
- collect ideas for the Research Comps (or use master thesis if possible)
Tom
- wrist/thumb
- yurt