Overview
Your final grade is made up of three major components, homework assignments, a
small project, and a final exam. The weighting of these components is described below.
Students are expected to do their own work at all times and to follow the
university's codes of academic conduct.
Cases of suspected collaboration or cheating will be immediately forwarded to
the Dean of Students, and will be pursued to resolution.
This is an unpleasant process for all involved, so please do not put yourself in this situation.
Grading is determined by a term-long accumulation of points, weighed in
percentage as stated for each component as summarized below.
Determinations of the individual category breakdowns will be determined by
looking for gaps or clumps in the final averages.
Homework Assignments
The regular homework assignments will be substantive and you will have 1-2
weeks to do them. I anticipate giving around six of these.
These regular homeworks will be worth 35% of your grade.
Individual values will be determined later, althouch the easier assignments get less weight.
Vis Journal
I also expect you to contribute to a visualization Journal
Project
One month-long project will be given in this course.
The project will be broken down into four parts, each around a week in
duration.
The project will have you develop a small information visualization tool.
The assignments will have you design the tool, and then build and evaluate it.
The report that you turn in should be presented professionally, and should
stress grammatical correctness and clarity.
It will be submitted via on paper, with supplementary material via the Web.
You will be judged on your originality, innovativeness, quality of
writing, and correctness.
Further details will accompany each assignment.
Quizzes
The quizzes will cover the lecture
materials and the readings.
I expect you to have a basic grasp of these materials
and of all parts of your assignments and your project.
You should be familiar with what went on in each aspect of your project.
Summary
Below is presented the weight of the different course components toward your
final grade.
Component Weight Assignments 50% Project InfoVis Proposal, Design, Build & Demo 20% Quizzes 30%