Weekly+Tasks

Tuesday, December 14, 2010
 * Finally, we were able to tour the NICU and the PICU at JHU with Dr. Chris Lehmann starting at 7:30am
 * He showed us the current visualizations and explained several conflicts with the state of the art technology in these units.
 * Only Erica and Chris were able to make it. Photos will be posted shortly.

Thurdsay, December 9, 2010
 * Finally, a meeting with everyone.
 * Aparently, Ima's computer died, but she was able to recover half of her results.
 * Chris had made significant progress with the visualization.
 * Erica has started creating the survey according to the specification of the doctors.

Thursday, December 2, 2010
 * Only Chris showed up for meeting today. Very disappointing.
 * After the last meeting with each of you, Erica was placed on working on the survey, Ima on the clustering, and Chris on the visualization.
 * Erica has not able to meet with us for two weeks because of a conflict in her schedule. We didn't meet the week of Thanksgiving as a group so we are a bit disconnected.

Monday, November 22, 2010
 * I want to meet with each of you individually before you go off to Thanksgiving and be sure that we are on the same page about your responsibilities.
 * I also have your checks. Please let me know when you would be able to meet.

Thursday, November 4th, 2010
 * Field trip to JHU on Tuesday November 9th at 6:50am
 * We are meeting with the doctors and discussing what we need to accomplish by the end of the semester.
 * I will be emailing all of you two articles on how to evaluate the visualization. One is attached here. Please read this one and read the one I sent you before on the pilot study named "An Animated Multivariate Visualization for Physiological and Clinical Data in the ICU" (If you don't have it anymore, a link is on my website) and I will be sending you one more about Lifelines 2. We need to come up with a plan on how to evaluate the tool we are building in this meeting, so the more ideas you have the better. We will also be brainstorming on what we can do to improve the visualization.
 * We don't meet with the physicians often, so please do your best to make a good impression by doing your homework. That means read about and know about the papers that we have read, in particular the ones about our visualization, Lifelines, Knave II, and SAX. I will send you information about the doctors with the second paper, and have some ideas about how the visualization can be improved and how we should evaluate the visualization tool. If you have some results, bring along your computer to show your ideas.

Thursday, October 15, 2010
 * I have created an account for each of you on the server so that you can check out the code for the visualization.
 * You need to change the password ASAP.
 * Download eclipse and check the code out of the CVS repository. I will help you do that in today's meeting so you can start playing with the code.

Friday, September 24, 2010
 * Ima is to read chapters 1 and 10 in the book Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart, and Stork.
 * Ima is also to download WEKA and do the following tutorial on WEKA http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/classes/ect584/WEKA/
 * Erica and Chris are to attempt to follow the tutorial that you watched over the last week and actually replicate the applications that are built in the tutorial. The website is @http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-10-top-apis.html. If you have time, you can attempt to build the framework that we will be using for the project that we discussed at our last meeting using the NetBeans IDE and groovy.
 * Erica and Chris are also to read the following two papers
 * @http://cs.umbc.edu/ordonez/IHI2010-Ordonez.pdf
 * http://cs.umbc.edu/ordonez/VAHC2010-Lehmann.pdf

Friday, September 17, 2010
 * Today we met and put the final touches on the website and blogs.
 * For next week, Chris and Erica are to get familiar with the NetBeans Platform
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 * Ima is to begin getting familiar with using Weka and download it
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Friday, September 10, 2010
 * Online blogs and website are due next Friday.
 * Each of you is expected to maintain a blog about the CREU Experience. The blog must be public and accessible from the web page.
 * Please put a post about each paper in your blogs for next week.

Friday, September 3, 2010
 * As per today's meeting, Chris and Erica will be working on the visualization and Ima will be working on the clustering project.
 * Chris and Erica will download Eclipse to work on the visualization and Ima will be downloading WEKA.
 * All of you will be doing a literature survey to better understand what the project is about and to understand the previous related research in the field. See the Bibliography for reading materials.
 * We will meet regularly on Fridays at 1pm in ITE 225 for the fall semester.
 * Journals were given to all three students to write all work completed during the week. Each student is expected to work between 10-15 hours per week on their projects and publish a summary of their work online.