- April 18th, 2003
- Preliminary
marks have been posted. Please check for errors or
omissions. I have mailed out comments on the project reports
to the groups (if you didn't get it, please contact one of your
group members). Project reports can be picked up from my
office on Wednesday onwards. Course marks will be finalized
next week.
- April 15th, 2003
- Notes for the following topics have been added to the notes and
schedule pages:
- Link for project presentation added:
Lens project
- Waiting for 2 more...
- April 4th, 2003
- Notes for the following topics have been added to the notes and
schedule pages:
- Note -- if you want to do assignment #5 and critique#5 in lieu of
other assignments or critiques, you can do that (I'll take the top 4
marks)
- March 30th, 2003
- Notes for the following topics have been added to the notes and
schedule pages:
- Link for our Workshop on Medical informatics:
http://web.uvic.ca/~chdmw/workshop/ has been added to the
website
- Assignment #5 and
Critique #5 have been posted and
are due April 11th -- optional (to boost your mark for in class
participation)
- Reminder: project reports are due April 11th in EOW 313 --
project reports must have attached a description of each member's
contribution to the project that is signed by the other members.
- March 13th, 2003
- March 2nd, 2003
- Notes on
research methods have
been posted (guest lecture by Mechthild Maczewski
- Crititue#4 has been posted
(due Mar 10th)
- Reminder Critique #3 is due
on Monday March 3rd
- Readings for next week
have been posted (by Mar 10th)
- Meetings with instructor this week have been confirmed -- prepare
an update on your project progress for your meeting
- February 24th, 2003
- Notes for today's lecture have been
posted.
- February 17th, 2003
- Project groups have been completed!
Get working on your proposals and submit as soon as possible.
Also we will be meeting (that is groups will be meeting with me)
during the week of March 3/7.
- Some of the links for critique#3
were broken, I updated them. Also added another sentence to the
instructions for critique #3, asking you to compare the visions of
Nelson and Vannevar Bush.
- February 16th, 2003
- Important: Monday's class will
be in the Visual Arts building (http://www.uvic.ca/maps/buildings/visual.html,
location A4 on the uvic campus map).
Please try to be there as close to 11:20 as possible (I know some have
a midterm before this, I will wait behind for those students).
- Some of the project teams have been filled -- see
this page for updates as they occur
- I have posted readings
for the next couple of weeks (in case you want to get started during
reading break)
- Critique #3 has been posted
(due March 3rd)
- Note your project proposal should also mention the roles of each
of the team members.
- Check the "More..." button on the webboard for getting emails when
messages are posted, and to mark messages as read after you login.
Everyone should check the webboard frequently!
- February 15th, 2003
- See the webboard for
posting about the project groups and project proposals. (selected
Topics in info viz on the webboard)
- Important undergrads must email me your preferred project
choices (1st and 2nd choices are sufficient) by Monday at the latest
(you must email me if you have no project so far....). Hopefully
all projects will be posted by then (if not, please email me your
choices to date of available projects).
- As mentioned in class, assignment #5 and critique #5 are optional
and can be waived in lieu of extra weighting given to your
participation in this course (which includes attending class,
punctuality, workshop participation, participating in class and
participating on the webboard discussions).
- Important: Monday's class will
be in the Visual Arts building (http://www.uvic.ca/maps/buildings/visual.html,
location A4 on the uvic campus map).
Please try to be there as close to 11:20 as possible (I know some have
a midterm before this, I will wait behind for those students).
- February 10th, 2003
- February 6th, 2003
- February 3rd, 2003
- January 26th, 2003
- More information on the
projects and some project ideas have been posted here
- Instructions for Critique #1
have been posted. This critique is due next Thursday, February
6th before class.
- Readings have been
assigned for this week.
- Slides have been posted for this week: Context and Detail
- Link to
Liquid Design (discusses Bertin's variables, Gestalt principles,
information architecture etc) was added to the links page (thanks!)
- January 25th, 2003
- Tips for installing software for assignment #3:
- Some help if you are
having difficulty installing Ontoviz (these instructions are
from Neil Ernst, thanks Neil):
1. Download the file from the plugins page of protege.stanford.edu.
2. Extract it to a temporary folder.
3. Copy ontoviz.jar and grapppa1_2.jar to ..\protege-2000\plugins\
(the
directory protege is installed)
4. Run the gv176b1.exe file to some directory: typically c:\program
files\att
5. Go to your protege directory again, probably c:\program
files\protege-2000 and edit the protege.properties file with a text
editor.
6. Add these lines at the end:
dot.fontsize=-2
mainframe.rectangle=81\ 95\ 918\ 616
dot.font=Arial
dot.command=C\:\\Program\ Files\\att\\graphviz\\bin\\dot <- this
should
be the complete path to dot(.exe)
(note: the double backslash is important)
7. open Protégé, load a project, then select Project->Configure and
place a check in the Ontoviz box.
8. Go to the ontoviz tab, and click the C button in that tab - this
should display a graph of the entire ontology.
More details are available in the zip file you downloaded under
readme.txt about the plethora of options.
- The visual attribute
explorer works better with Java 1.3
- The visual attribute
tool has also been installed in the lab as follows (these directions
are from the seng system administrator):
The software is installed on the following A321 machines: awin01,
awin04,
awin11, awin15.
To make it work, these steps must be taken:
click START, RUN, CMD
change to d:\temp\AttributeExplorer\bin
type "set path = %path%;d:\j2sdk1.4.0\bin;"
(it recommends 1.3, but 1.4 seems to work ok)
type "vae ..\samples\house.csv"
all going well, a nice gui chart should show up.
- January 22nd, 2003
- Workshop presenters and discussants have been posted. Please check
emails are correct, and assignments are correct! See the
schedule page.
- More details on the workshop process will be discussed in class
tomorrow. See here for
an overview.
- For assignment #3, we have a
new version of Jambalaya ready to release, it is much easier to
learn/use than the last version.
Jambalaya release 1.6 is posted at:
www.cs.uvic.ca/~rlintern/shrimp/jambalaya/jambalaya_release_1_6.zip
***Note: This is to uzipped into the "Protege-2000/" directory, NOT
the "Protege-2000/plugins" directory. The reason for this is that it
includes a "properties" file to specify default colors etc.
- Don't forget to start on the
readings, as there are a lot!
- Some new links have been added to our links
page that were advertised on our
webboard.
- Notes on trees and networks
have been posted for tomorrow (see notes pages for 6up file)
- January 19th, 2003
- Readings for this week
have been posted.
- Notes for Monday's class have been posted
- Ass#3 has been posted
- January 15th, 2003
- We have a webboard for the class, the url is:
http://webboard.uvic.ca:8080/~InfoViz/
- For Ass#2, Protege can be installed in the labs without admin permission.
Please try installing it soon (either at home or in the labs) to
ensure there are no last minute problems.
- I have posted 6up versions of all the slides as not all
printer drivers apparently support this feature.
- Notes on "Visualizing Knowledge
Representation" have been posted.
- Some new links added to our link page:
- January 13th, 2003
- January 9th, 2003
- Re Assignment #1: Not e -- you do not have to
select a tool that provides interactive visualizations, simply
choose a tool that allows you to create and interact (transform)
some graphical kind of information (that is representation that
uses more than words).
- Re textbook: The bookstore is out of them
apparently. Please try to borrow a friends' book, I
will place a copy of the reading for assignment #1 on my door.
You may borrow it to photocopy and then return it. I
have placed a copy of the book on reserve (in the library) but
apparently it will take a few days before it appears there.
Amazon has copies and have free shipping too as an option as the
bookstore will take a few days to get a book in.
- January 6th, 2003
- Welcome to the course!
- This page contains notices and important information
throughout the term. Please refer to it frequently.
- Assignment #1 has been posted and is due in one week!
- Lecture notes from today have been posted (introduction
to information visualization)
- Lecture notes for Thursday's class have been posted (visual
perception).
- If you missed the first class, please email me.
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