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 are more important and are overall descriptive of project progress
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: Fix all crash-inducing bugs in model and 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 paper to VIS
Continuous Colormaps
- By 1/19: 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 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