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Research Methods CSCI 8901: Visualizing Your Research Prof. Tim Wood GWU Research Pitch Next class is our last class! 5 minute research presentation - Extended elevator pitch Get us excited about your research area! Tim Wood - The George
CSCI 8901: Visualizing Your Research
GWU
Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Next class is our last class! 5 minute research presentation
Get us excited about your research area!
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Slides Posters Papers
You want your work to look:
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Tim Wood’s Thesis Defense Sometime in April, 2011 Somewhere in farm country, Massachusetts
Tim Wood - Thesis Defense - UMass Amherst
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rent server and storage resources on demand
Challenges: large scale and dynamic workload fluctuations
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resources and simplify automation
into Virtual Machines
Hypervisor
Linux
VM 2
Windows
VM 1
Windows Linux
Tim Wood - Thesis Defense - UMass Amherst
VMs and account for virtualization overheads?
Virtual Environments
VMs be placed to allow for the greatest level of server consolidation?
VM resources to prevent server
VM migration and resizing
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Deployment Resource Management Reliability
MOVE Memory Buddies Sandpiper CloudNet Pipe Cloud
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Sandpiper
Memory Buddies
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Time Utilization
1 1 ... 1 1
0x11223344 0x55667788
Memory
VM2 VM3 VM4
VM1
MOVE
Predict initial resource requirements
Determine initial placement
Balance load to prevent hotspots
Consolidate servers
VM5
VM2 VM3 VM4 VM1 VM5
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Good balance of text and visuals Nice high level overview of thesis Good connections between components of thesis Animation is a bit excessive
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Use large fonts (41 point)
Use bullets, not paragraphs
Don’t try to be exhaustive
Don’t try to cram in too much content!
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Use large fonts
Use bullets, not paragraphs
Don’t try to be exhaustive
Don’t try to cram in too much content!
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
This is text
White space is important, but Keynote is absurd
key points
Make your own template and keep improving it!
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This is where I put my content Here is more content Wow, this is just awful. Why is the bar so big at the bottom? I have so little useful space and it is poorly laid out.
Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Text that is reasonably large
Large “before paragraph” spacing so bullets aren’t too tight and smaller line spacing so you can fit denser text when needed (try to avoid multi-line) A useful footer with your name and affiliation
Minimal background images Optional: school / lab logos
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Pop up boxes to emphasize key points!
Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Text that is reasonably large
Large “before paragraph” spacing so bullets aren’t too tight and smaller line spacing so you can fit denser text when needed (try to avoid multi-line) A useful footer with your name and affiliation
Minimal background images Optional: school / lab logos
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It depends! Usually only if ~3 bullets on slide
Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Useful, but “expensive” to create Can be distracting if
Suggestion: only use animation for emphasizing most important points
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From Boxes and Arrows
Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Related colors Complementary colors
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Limit the number
Max per display: 4 Max across en9re app: 7
Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
White background with a black font is easier to read Black background with white font can look childish Other colors may not have enough contrast or could look strange depending on the projector
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
White background with a black font is easier to read Black background with white font can look childish Other colors may not have enough contrast or could look strange depending on the projector
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
White background with a black font is easier to read Black background with white font can look childish Other colors may not have enough contrast or could look strange depending on the projector
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Know the difference between: Serif fonts: easier to read in print
Sans-Serif fonts: more modern on screen
Monospaced fonts: only for code
Never use Comic Sans!
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Should we mimic TED talk slide style?
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Photo: Blair Harkness
WINSTON CHURCHILL
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Don’t use this for a technical talk TED is great inspiration for speaking style
Similarly, much of the advice for making great slides
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Slide format will be very different… Classroom tutorial
Talk at CS conference
Pitching a startup or product
Talk at Department of Defense
Each company / org will have its own “culture"
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Visual representations of your algorithm, system, or approach are always helpful
Find a tool that works for you
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Node 2 (Primary)
NF Manager
TimeStamper PacketLogger RSync
Node 3 (Standby)
NF Manager
TimeStamper PacketLogger RSync Sync Link
Egress Switch Node 1 (Predecessor)
NF Manager
TimeStamper PacketLogger Primary Link
Secondary LinkIncoming Traffic
X
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NF4 NF4’’ State State NF2 NF2’ State State NF4’ State
NF3 NF3’ State NF3’’ State NF1 NF1’ State State State
NF5 NF5’ State NF5’’ State State
X
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Is this a good system diagram?
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’s type. – –
Figure 1 SuMo – Smart cloud Monitoring
clouData for retrieving a user’s current running instances, for getting ’
“simulated” the “simulated” data/information produced by module’s methods.
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Useless content Bad color choices
Fonts need to be bigger! No caption to explain
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Goals: Clean, consistent shapes Clear connections between components Useful colors Looks good in print
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Stick with “standard” graph types
Include error bars!
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Every graph in this paper was a radar chart… odd
Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
What tool do you use to make plots?
Avoid tools like Excel
because of the graphs, but it is a sign of amateur-ness)
Use the same tool as your lab-mates
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Use:
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My high school science teacher would (correctly) fail me for making this graph… why?
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Temperature Volume
Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
My high school science teacher would (correctly) fail me for making this graph… why?
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“Connect the dots” is really unscientific! Trend lines are way better! But this is what the community expects!
Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Color blindness
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Tim Wood - The George Washington University - Department of Computer Science
Color blindness
Blindness
US have a visual disability
Many types of disabilities to be aware of: sight, sound, touch, mobility
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Slides:
Diagrams:
Graphs:
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