FINAL PROJECT 01:

SKETCHING AND EARLY PROTOTYPING

October 21, 2015

SDS235:

Visual Analytics

Announcements

• Assignment 3: Visual Analytics Systems in the Wild

• See Piazza for more details, as well as information on where to look for papers

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Monday’s Brainstorm: Connections

Monday’s Brainstorm: Datasets• American Housing Survey: http://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs/data.html• American Medical Association: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/physician-data-

resources.page? • Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov/data/• CDC Data: http://www.cdc.gov/datastatistics/• Census: http://www.census.gov• Children's Worlds Survey: http://www.isciweb.org/?CategoryID=141• CISER Public Opinion Polls: https://www.ciser.cornell.edu/info/polls.shtml • DHS Immigration Statistics: http://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics • Facebook API: https://developers.facebook.com/ • Glassdoor: http://www.glassdoor.com/developer/index.htm • IRS Data: https://www.irs.gov/uac/Tax-Stats-2 • ITCI Trade Laws Database: http://tradecomplianceinstitute.org/p_regulatory_database.php • Medicare Health Outcomes Survey: http://www.hosonline.org/ • National Center for Education Statistics: https://nces.ed.gov/ • National Institute for Mental Health: http://ndct.nimh.nih.gov/ • Twitter API: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public• USDA Census: http://www.agcensus.usda.gov• US Import/Export data: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/index.html• World Bank Commodities Data: http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/commodity-price-data• World Bank GDP Data: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD• WTO Trade and Tariff Data: https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm• Yahoo Finance Market Data: https://beta.finance.yahoo.com/• Yelp API: https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/overview

Lessons from ARPA: George Heilmeier

Activity 1: Heilmeier(-ish) Questions

• What question is the project is trying to answer?

• How have people answered it / gotten around it before?

• What new idea does this project offer that improves on the

old way of doing things?

• What are the (major) building blocks the project will need

to be successful?

• Which ones are in place already, and which ones are still

in progress?

• Are there any potential roadblocks?

Discussion

Activity 2: Roadblock Resolution

For next week

• Jordan will be attending IEEE VIS in Chicago

• Guest speakers:

• Monday: Megan Monroe, IBM Research

Storytelling with Visual Analytics

• Wednesday: Vijay Gadepally, MIT

Database Technologies