Project Presentation and Report

For your final project I expect 2 things, a demo and a small report (due a week later)

Demo/Final presentation

  • Your demo will take place during the last class
  • You have a maximum of 10 minutes for the demo plus a maximum of 5 minutes for questions.
  • Your demo should include a
    • 30s elevator pitch - who and what is your tool for
    • a short explanation of what the tool shows, also mention the source of your data
    • a short demo of the possible interactions in the tool
    • a short demo of some of the most interesting things you found in the data
    • mention a few limitations of your tool

Split the presentation so that everyone will present a part of the demo.

Report

Your report will count as 1 assignment - exactly one week after the day of the demo at the end of the day January 24

Your report should have the following structure:

  1. A title for your project and the names of all team members. Describe how each team member contributed to the project.
  2. Introduction: describe your project. Write 1 paragraph each about:
    1. What your project visualizes broadly (do not describe individual features yet), who the users are, and what it allows users to do
    2. Why you built it - what is the motivation
    3. How you built the tool (e.g. describe software you wrote, libraries and data you used, etc.)
  3. Feature Description. Briefly describe the main features of your tool and use screenshots to illustrate them. Give information of why you built the feature in this specific way (e.g. why this type of data encoding is in your opinion better than another you may have considered).
  4. Interesting findings. Write short descriptions of 2-3 things you learned from the dataset using the tool. Illustrate what you found using screenshots.

You are welcome to reuse text from previous assignments -- if it still makes sense

What to submit

  1. Your tool. Create a .zip file with the following content:
    1. Your source code - no data and no libraries.
    2. A readme.txt that links to the online version of your tool. Make sure that the tool is up at least until you have received your grade.
      1. On the website that includes your tool add a descriptive title (see the storytelling lecture). Add a subtitle as appropriate. Remember what you learned in the storytelling lecture also about how to present and start up your visualization.
    3. Also submit a 300x300px representative thumbnail of your solution. The thumbnail might be used on a website where all solutions of all students will be collected and made available. Do not put any identifying information on your html page if you do not want to be identified.
  2. Your report. Save your report as a .pdf file (no word or rtf documents are acceptable). Name the report with your team name.

When to submit what and how

  1. Before January 11th end of the day submit your tool. You will be given a link to a submission form on Teams.
  2. By end of the day January 24th submit your final report as a .pdf file via email to petra.isenberg@inria.fr with the subject VA-Project Report.