University of Maryland Department of Computer Science Fall 1997 Graduate Course
CMSC 828S/838S INFORMATION VISUALIZATION
Instructor: Ben Shneiderman (ben@cs.umd.edu) 9/15/97
Meets in AT&T Teaching/Learning Theater - Engineering 3140
Sept 15 One page report, individual project with Spotfire application
Describe Data (show data and visualization), good outcomes, problems
Do this on our lab web site (and print me a copy)
5-7pm Guest speaker: Alfred Inselberg (dinner)
Sept 17 11-5pm Satellite TV show
Sept 22 Editorial Board prepares plan for GIVE
(Guide to Information Visualization Environments)
Sept 24 Guest speaker: Dave McNabb
Sept 29
Oct 1 First Draft of GIVE for reviews
Oct 6 Team Project proposal
Oct 8 Guest speaker: Dave Ebert
Oct 13 Individual Application Project proposal
Oct 15 Complete update of IV taxonomy on our web site
(pointers to systems, annotated (optional) papers, web sites)
Oct 20 Guest speaker: Catherine Plaisant, LifeLines
(BS keynotes NAS/NAE/IOM Visualization conference)
Oct 22 Team Project outline, intro and references Guest speaker: Vo Tran, NetViz
Oct 27
Oct 29 Individual Application Project First Draft
Nov 3
Nov 5 Team Project Progress Report
Nov 10
Nov 12
(BS keynotes ACM Multimedia Conference)
Nov 17 Individual Application Project DUE & Presentations begin
Nov 19 Individual Application Project Presentations
Nov 24
Nov 26 Team Project First Draft
Dec 1
Dec 3
Dec 8 Team Project are DUE & Presentations begin
Dec 10 Team Project Presentations
University of Maryland Department of Computer Science Fall 1997 Graduate Course
CMSC 828S/838S INFORMATION VISUALIZATION
Instructor: Ben Shneiderman (ben@cs.umd.edu) 9/15/97
Individual Application Project
This is to be done individually and will be the Comprehensive exam for this course.
Choose an application problem, community of users, database to work on, and some software tool that you will use for this project. Describe each in your introduction (2-5 pages). Then report on what you did to make as effective a visualization as possible. If you can, show it to your intended users and report on their feedback. Draw conclusions, and make recommendations for potential users of your application, for designers of future software tools, and for researchers.
Oct 13 Individual Application Project proposal
One page outline of intended topic, users, database, software, expected outcomes
Oct 29 Individual Application Project First Draft
On-web first draft of final report
Nov 17 Individual Application Project DUE & Presentations begin
On-web final report
Nov 19 Individual Application Project Presentations
Team Project
This project is to be done in teams of 2-4 people.
You may do a human factors study, a software implementation, or an ambitious application (or discuss other suggestions if you like). The outcome is to be a conference quality paper.
Oct 6 Team Project proposal
Oct 22 Team Project outline, intro and references
On-web first outline, introduction, and starter set of references of final report
Nov 5 Team Project Progress Report
On-paper one page progress report - especially focus on problems you must overcome.
Nov 26 Team Project First Draft
On-web first draft of final report
Dec 8 Team Project are DUE & Presentations begin
On-web final report
Dec 10 Team Project Presentations