From CS 795 Spring 2013

CS795-S13: Links

Admin

• Class Email List
• Research Methods
• Plagiarism
• ODU's Writing Tutorial Services
• ODU's Graduate Writing Assistance Program
• Code Development/Maintenance
  • GitHub
  • Project Hosting at Google Code
  • Subversion (svn)

Project Links

Climate Change

• ODU Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Initiative
• NOAA DigitalCoast - data and tools
• IGBP Climate Change Index
  • video (2 min)
• Surging Seas visualization
• Carbon Visuals
• Congressional Temperature Trends

Code for America

• Code for America
  • Jennifer Pahlka's TED talk (12 min)
• Code for Virginia Beach
  • list of suggested projects
• Local CfA Brigades
  • ODU - just getting started, needs more members
  • Norfolk
  • Virginia Beach
  • Hampton Roads Brigade Google Group
• Developed Applications

VAST Challenges

• Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository - previous years' challenges
• 2012 VAST Challenge
• 2011 VAST Challenge
  • Mat's entry
  • Kalpesh's entry

InfoVis Links

• InfoVis Resources, compiled by M. Weigle
• http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mweigle/CS795-F12/Links, links from CS 795/895 (InfoVis) Fall 2012
• Notes on InfoVis systems and toolkits, compiled by M. Weigle

Lecture Links

Jan 14 - Intro

• visual analytics video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9PvskathGI (watch problem 0-2:09, goals 5:22-7:00)
• Hans Rosling video (5 min) - http://www.gapminder.org/videos/200-years-that-changed-the-world-bbc/
  • Full TED talk (20 min) - http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

Jan 14 - Data

Web Scraping

• Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data (propublica.org)
• Scraping Data from HTML
• Beautiful Soup (Python)
• web scraping example
  • http://wunderground.com
  • http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/ORF/2011/1/1/DailyHistory.html
• Reading Flash Data (propublica.org)
• Reading PDF Data (propublica.org)
• Comet Docs

Data Cleaning

• Data Science Toolkit - collection of online data processing tools
• Mr. People
• Mr. Data Converter
• Data Wrangler (video)
• Google Refine (video, more info from propublica.org)