Post a SHORT note on your project progress here. Please post by tomorrow night, 11/28. Include a sentence or two about what you’ve been up to, and links to any reference material (such as existing example visualizations or projects that inspired you, etc) that you’ve found useful, and be sure to note any challenges that you might have encountered!

Example Update: “This week I cleaned my data and made a plan to return to the library to take photos on Saturday. My main difficulty so far is determining which fields I will use in the visualization– is the media type important? I found this review of using maps in visualization helpful.”

Write a final project proposal and post it as a comment below.  I would like you to work with the BHS data; if you have another interest we can discuss. In your proposal, be sure to write three or four sentences on each of the following points:

• Target Users and user behaviors/goals
• Data set (source, description, parameter)
• Question you hope to answer, ideas or concept you plan to explore
• Approach (visualization of whole/detail, interface redesign, data-artwork)
• Potential problems or challenges
• Modes of interaction
• Aesthetic approach

Also, include a list of steps and delivery dates for completing your project in the weeks that remain in the semester, an example of this plan narrative might be:

• by the 22nd I will have completed the project proposal and acquired the data I need, cleaned it up as a CSV file, and be ready to visualize (chosen tools and software to work with, written pseudocode, and requested Processing help from Zannah or Sepand (if needed))
• by the 29th I will have returned to BHS and taken photos of xx materials in the collection, plus I will have taken a first pass at visualizing the data in Many Eyes, Processing, or another tool, and have several examples to show
• by the 6th I will have refined my visualizations and incorporated class/user feedback, and started work on designing special graphics and interactive elements (roll-overs, etc).
• 13th: presentation prepared, showing my product and describing my process, background considerations, problems/challenges, and what I did to solve them.

If you have any questions, please let me know ASAP. We’ll do progress check-ins throughout the process, and I can tailor class lectures to meet specific needs.

Happy Thanksgiving!