In-class critique—IEEE VIS

Due 2023-10-27, 11:59pm EST 14pts 180min

Please ask any questions about this assignment in class, or later today on Slack. We have a new channel #ieee-vis to use for this assignment.

You are welcome to work with other students on this assignment. You can even create a viewing party!

Table of Contents

• Change Log
• Aim of the assignment
• Instructions
• Submission instructions
• Grading rubric

Change Log

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Aim of the assignment

One of the goals of this course is for you to be able to write, present, and be knowledgeable about contemporary visualization topics. The best place to see the latest and greatest in the world of visualization is at the yearly IEEE VIS conference. Seeing what is presented there will expose you to what some of the top minds in the field of visualization are thinking about currently.

Instructions

We will not be having our regularly scheduled lectures on T 2023-10-24 and F 2023-10-27. Instead, you will be asked to spend 180 minutes this week (1) researching what papers are being presented at IEEE VIS that interest you and (2) watching recorded video presentations for them.

1. Review the program for IEEE VIS using this dimensionality reduction visualization. See John Alexis Guerra Gomez’s Twitter/X post for a short overview video of how the tool works. 2D brushing with your mouse drag updates a list below the visualization with the selected papers.

   

2. Click the “Fast forward” links on papers that interest you to get a 30-second preview of the paper. Click the “Prerecorded talk” link to see the full ~8 minute talk. Try to watch approximately 120 minutes of talks, so about 13 of them. You are welcome to set up a viewing party with other students, including on Slack!

   

3. Choose one video out of everything you watch to bring to our attention. Make a post in our #ieee-vis channel on Slack. Follow this template, replacing the text within the less than and greater than signs (<...>`):

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   <Paper title. E.g., “Affective Visualization Design: Leveraging the Emotional Impact of Data”>

   • Authors: <Fill in. E.g., “Xingyu Lan, Yanqiu Wu, Nan Cao”>
   • FFWD link: <Hyperlink to YouTube Fast Forward short video. E.g., “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7KBPKW85qc”>
   • Talk link: <Hyperlink to YouTube full talk video. E.g., “https://youtu.be/cPMVHC2cAWE”>
   • Comments: <Write something interesting about the paper! Here are some possibilities: you can summarize the contribution of the paper and think about what worked and what didn’t, use it as an example to discuss common themes or trends you see, discuss the soundness of the work, discuss new opportunities raised by the work, or critique what you have learned in class in the context of the talk.> —

4. Take a look at a few submissions from other students and add comments and reactions to anything you find interesting.

Submission instructions

Make a post in our #ieee-vis channel on Slack.

Grading rubric

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