http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~cutler/classes/visualization/F14/hw13_final_project.php

Assignment #13: Final Project Report & Presentation

You will present your final project through both an in class presentation and a written document.

Presentations will be during class the last two lectures. Individuals will have 10 minutes to present, followed by 2 minutes for questions from the audience (while we transition to the next presenter). Teams of 2 will have 15 minutes to present followed by 3 minutes for questions. Attendance is mandatory on both presentation days and everyone should give their full attention to their classmates presentation and ask good questions. Students who miss class or are late or using their laptops or phones during their classmates presentations will receive a zero for their own presentation.

The final project reports should be in a form suitable for easy & permanent archive on the course webpage. (If you do not want your report posted online, please email the instructor.) Examples include a .pdf or a self-contained .html with images and/or small videos. Links to external, self-hosted pages are discouraged.

Both the presentation and the written document should clearly describe:

The motivation and audience for your visualization. What are the goals you hope to achieve with your visualiation? What was your research question and hypothesis?

Summary of related work, data sources, algorithms, and other inspiration or background material. (Use proper bibliographic format in the report.)

Visualization Design Evolution. What was your initial idea for the visualization, what your initial plan to present, explore, or discover with the data? How did the design change as you worked on the visualization? Include intermediate screenshots and examples of the visualization process.

What feedback did you get on the design from other people? (How well do these people match your target audience?) How did your visualization design or implementation change based on this feedback? How could this visualization continue to evolve beyond this course project?

Description of the core features/contributions and technical implementation details/challenges. What visualization packages or other pre-existing code did you leverage? What algorithms or data structures did you implement?

For team projects: Who did what? (Note: Both presentation and report writeup should be a joint effort).

Target Visualization Stage: all!

How to Submit

Your final project submission to the homework submission server should include:
The written report, suitable for archival posting on the course webpage. All projects reports will be posted online by default. If you do not want your project report posted online please send the instructor an email.

A representative 200x200 pixel image (thumbnail.png or thumbnail.jpg) for the project index page (for example: advanced graphics projects).

All code written by you. Do not include the executable or 3rd party or open-source libraries. The instructor will not be compiling/running the code.

Samples of the input data, if it's "interesting". (Please don't upload big data files, but include a snippet of the format you were working with, if it's human readable ASCII).

Each student should have their own plaintext README.txt (using the provided template). Note: The team may make a single joint submission of the other materials.