Final Project

Overview

For the final project, you will complete an original visualization on your own. This project should be specific to your field, personal interest, or your favorite area covered in CS 205. The only requirement is to use techniques that you learned in CS 205.

Simular to Projects #1 on #2, there will be graded milestones along the way to a final deliverable. The final submission for this project will be during the course final exam period.

Milestones

Due: Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 (before class):

  • Complete a proposal for your final course project.
  • The proposal should be at least half a page and printed out, to be handed in at the beginning of class on Thursday.

Due: Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016 (before class):

  • A sourced dataset, including basic logic to read it into Python
  • You should be ready to talk about your project and data in class during lecture

Due: Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2016 (before class):

  • A draft visualization, encoding data from your dataset
  • You should be ready to present this to the class during lecture

Due: Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 (7pm, final exam period):

  • Your final visualization!
  • If you prefer, you can also present your project Friday, Dec. 9 at 11:00am

Files and Submission

This project must be submitted via the project_final directory. To get this directory, merge the following branch:

git fetch release
git merge release/project_final master -m "merge"

All progress updates must be submitted via git and you should submit your project after each time you work on it, and certainly submit it before every lecture. View detailed submission instructions here.