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Project Ideas

Project Ideas. IGVA. The Assignment. You have one week to choose a team and to propose a project that relates to Visualization. The idea is that teams leverage individual strengths and interests; e.g. if you are uncomfortable coding work with someone who has a CS background.

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Project Ideas

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  1. Project Ideas IGVA

  2. The Assignment • You have one week to choose a team and to propose a project that relates to Visualization. • The idea is that teams leverage individual strengths and interests; e.g. if you are uncomfortable coding work with someone who has a CS background. • A project proposal includes: • The names of the team members • The expected roles of the team members in the project • The project aim, or goal. • Sources of data used in the project. • A good case that the project relates to Visualization. • A tentative project schedule, targeting April 5th as an end date.

  3. Suggested Project Structure: • Given: • Some nontrivial source of data • Some notion of a goal • Aim: • You must use visualizations to accomplish the goal, and • you must justify the particular visualization approaches you chose. • You may vary from this structure if you want; but you must make a good proposal for your project.

  4. I am also interested in projects that would help improve this course in the future including • Explore and evaluate a set of free visualization or visual analytics tools and explain how they can be useful in a multidisciplinary viz course. Show how they relate to the visualization pipelines discussed in the book. • Explore other (free) languages and tools besides python + pylab + mayavi and suggest alternatives. For example consider • http://processing.org, • http://code.google.com/apis/chart/interactive/docs/gadgetgallery.html • SAS, R, etc. Demonstrate that these can be used easily to produce a variety of types of interactive visualization

  5. VAST Challenges as a Project Basis • Consider VAST if you want a good place for prepared visual analytics problems, including data, goals, and even past solutions: • 2011: http://hcil.cs.umd.edu/localphp/hcil/vast11/ • 2010: http://hcil.cs.umd.edu/localphp/hcil/vast10/index.php • 2009: http://hcil.cs.umd.edu/localphp/hcil/vast/index.php • 2008: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTchallenge08/ • 2007: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTcontest07/ • 2006: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VASTcontest06/

  6. Example: VAST2011, MC1 Characterization of Epidemic Spread Vastopolis is a major metropolitan area with a population of approximately two million residents.  During the last few days, health professionals at local hospitals have noticed a dramatic increase in reported illnesses.  Observed symptoms are largely flu-like and include fever, chills ,sweats, aches and pains, fatigue, coughing, breathing difficulty, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, and enlarged lymph nodes. More recently, there have been several deaths believed to be associated with the current outbreak.  City officials fear a possible epidemic and are mobilizing emergency management resources to mitigate the impact.  You have been charged with providing an assessment of the situation. We provide you with two datasets.  The first one contains microblog messages collected from various devices with GPS capabilities.  These devices include laptop computers, handheld computers, and cellular phones.  The second one contains map information for the entire metropolitan area.  The map dataset contains a satellite image with labeled highways, hospitals, important landmarks, and water bodies.  We also provide supplemental tables for population statistics and observed weather data.  Additional information is provided in the README file.

  7. MC 1.1 Origin and Epidemic Spread: Identify approximately where the outbreak started on the map (ground zero location).  If possible, outline the affected area.  Explain how you arrived at your conclusion. (Short answer) MC 1.2 Epidemic Spread: Present a hypothesis on how the infection is being transmitted.  For example, is the method of transmission person-to-person, airborne, waterborne, or something else?  Identify the trends that support your hypothesis.  Is the outbreak contained?  Is it necessary for emergency management personnel to deploy treatment resources outside the affected area?  Explain your reasoning. (Detailed answer)

  8. A Past Solution

  9. Issues with VAST • I think past VAST challenges are a great source of problems, but the solutions are given, so a project using VAST data should • Review the past solutions • Either Develop your own system that you believe would allow a similar discovery • OR, Obtain the tools used in a past solution and repeat the process and evaluate them based on whatever aspects seem most relevant. • (Depending on the tool you may need to try and repeat more than one past submission, or it would be too easy)

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