HKUST VISLAB COMP 4462 Final Project Tutorial Wenchao

HKUST VISLAB COMP 4462 Final Project Tutorial Wenchao Li Leo Yu Ho, Lo Friday 8 May, 2019

Measurements 1. Knowledge you apply from the courses 2. Sophistication of the design 3. Insights you get from the data 4. Presentation

Knowledge from the Courses ● Do you apply any design rules/principles to your project? ○ Does your encoding correctly reflect the truth of data?

Knowledge from the Courses ● Do you apply any design rules/principles to your project? ○ What rules guide your project design?

Knowledge from the Courses ● Do you apply any design rules/principles to your project? ○ Gestalt Principles?

Knowledge from the Courses ● Do you use appropriate marks and channels?

Sophistication of the project ● Complex vs. Simple

Insights from the data ● ● ● ● What’s the background of the data? How you visualize your data? How your visualization derive the insights? Anything abnormal? Any outliers? Any interesting patterns? Any interesting trends? Any interactions in your project for easily demonstrating the insights? …

Presentation ● Jean-luc’s three laws to optimize communication: ○ Know your audience ■ ○ ○ Provide necessary background information Maximize the signal/noise ratio ■ Take your time ■ If something does not help, it hurts Use effective redundancy ■ Convey each message in different ways

Presentation ● Your presentation may include but not limit to: ○ Basic background information ○ Your visualization goals/tasks ○ Your design and encoding scheme of the visualization (implementation) ○ How your visualization solve your goals/tasks ○ What did you find? ○ What's your conclusion?

This is our last tutorial Have fun making beautiful visualizations! Thank you!