InfoVis SS 2024

Exercise 2: Survey

1 Produce Presentation Slides

Once you have been assigned your survey topic, you will present your work to me every week (see the schedule) using a slide deck and possibly accompanying live demos and/or videos:

• The first week, you present your initial ideas.
• The next few weeks, you present an incremental update of your progress so far.
• The final two weeks you present a full, self-contained talk (assuming no prior knowledge) about your topic.

See my guide to Making Presentation Slides.

2 Produce One or More Showcase Videos

You will probably produce one or more showcase videos, illustrating the systems or topics you have surveyed.

See my guide to Making a Showcase Video.

3 Write a Survey Paper

Write a survey paper on the topic your group was assigned in class:

• This is a group exercise.

• Write in English.

• Read my guide to Using LaTeX.

• Read the contents of my example LaTeX skeleton for writing a survey paper. Then, use and adapt it for your survey paper, replacing my content with yours.

• You can also look at some of the survey papers from previous semesters of the course.

  Note that these are provided as they were handed in, warts and all. They do not constitute perfect examples of what is expected.

4 Prepare Your Survey Report Folder

Prepare a hand-in folder called ivis-ssYYYY-gN-survey, where YYYY is the year and N is your group number (for example ivis-ss2023-g1-survey), containing your report and all related materials and code.

Your hand-in folder structure will look something like this:

  ivis-ss2023-g1-survey/
    data/
    latex-src/
      diagrams/
      images/
      listings/
    literature/
    presentation/
    software/
    videos/
    ivis-ss2023-g1-survey.pdf

Bear in mind:

• Include any data files you used in a data folder.

• Include the LaTeX source of your survey paper in a subdirectory called latex-src. Delete any files which are not part of your survey paper (my example files, temporary files, junk files).

• Include any additional papers or literature which you discovered in a subdirectory called literature.

• Include the slides (ppt, pdf, html) from your final presentation in a subdirectory called presentation.

• Include any code examples in a subdirectory called software.

• Include any screencast video demos in a videos folder. You can make screencasts with OBS studio, Camtasia, or similar software. Include an audio track in English explaining what the viewer is seeing.

• Include the final PDF of your survey paper in a file called ivis-ssYYYY-gN-survey.pdf, where YYYY is the year and N is your group number, for example ivis-ss2023-g1-survey.pdf.

• If you do not need a particular folder, do not include it.

  Do not leave empty folders or junk lying around.

5 Hand In Your Work

Zip up your hand-in folder as a file named something like ivis-ss2023-g1-survey.zip. Email the zip file to me at kandrews@iicm.edu before the deadline. If the zip file is too large for email, send it to me using bigmail.tugraz.at.