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In this milestone you will focus on presenting your findings to the class. We have reserved the last two lectures (on December 4 and December 6) for students to present their work to the class. Please note that, to be fair to all, I am expecting a draft presentation to be submitted for all projects on December 4, even if you are not presenting until December 6.

The repo that you create here will be used to submit your slide deck and any materials you use for your presentation.

Objectives

In this milestone we are:

  • Communicating the results of our project to the rest of the class
  • Creating a talk that summarizes the work we’ve accomplished this semester
  • Practicing our presentation skills

Presentation Format Requirements

We will conduct no more than five presentations on any given day. Each presentation will consist of a talk that is between 10-12 minutes. Please see an upcoming Piazza for the schedule of who will present on which days – the instructor will assign dates randomly and post the schedule there.

On your assigned time slot, the expectation is that you will present live to the class. You should prepare a short slide deck and come to class prepared to connect to the projector. As a backup, you may want to consider recording a video of your presentation which we can play to class in an unforeseen circumstance. Recording is not a requirement for this milestone, but if you choose this route I will expect a link to to be submitted to your repository, stored somewhere such as Google Drive or YouTube. You could also directly upload the video as a .mp4 file in your repository.

During the actual class period, we will watch live presentations and/or videos, with a 3-5 minute break in between each video for discussion from class. Discussion Q+A will factor into your class participation grade.

Presentation Content Requirements

Your presentation must address four points:

  1. You must introduce the research question that you studied, and what motivated you to pursue it.

  2. You must briefly describe related work in this area. This should contextualize your research relative to similar approaches.

  3. You must describe your research plan. Feel free to contextualize this with how your plan evolved, but primarily you should focus on what techniques your employed and what data sets you may have used.

  4. You must describe the results you achieved. Where appropriate, feel free to use a live demo any software tools you generated. Mention how you evaluated your work as well.

Feel free to include additional content as you see fit, but your goal should be to give a talk that would be similar to the sort of presentation you might see at a research conference. You might find inspiration is watching recent talks at conferences like IEEE VIS, some of which are available on IEEE VIS’s YouTube channel.

In 10-12 minutes it will be impossible to say everything that will go in your research report, so pick carefully what aspects you want to focus on, that might encourage an audience member to dig deeper in the same area.

Submission

You should use git to submit all presentation files. The expectation is that your repository will contain a copy of your slides BEFORE you are actually scheduled to give the presentation (to be fair to the entire class, so that no one gets additional time even if they are presenting the following week). Like we past project milestones, if you are working in a group only one member needs to submit to github.

Grading

Deductions

Requirement Value
Giving a presentation that satisfies the formatting requirements, including staying within 10-12 minute time limit 20
Presenting an introduction that states the research question and its motivation 15
Presenting relevant background work that contextualizes your approach 15
Describing your research plan and techniques 15
Discussing the results and their evaluation 15
Total 80/80


Cumulative Relationship to Final Grade

Worth 8% of your final grade