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General comments about Milestone 1

1. Everything that you submit should be labeled with what it is, and the date. Including contact info like email addresses is also useful.
2. Please include page numbers on slides and reports, so we can refer to particular pages.
3. Try to clean up table formats; cutting and pasting from Excel looks bad. I'm not really enforcing this here, because it takes so much time. However in the real world, please spend time on that.
4. At the least, make all the tables look the same.
5. When including images from a paper original like a drawing, make the contrast good, so that the background is light. E.g., if photo'ing with an app like docscan, or using a scanner, use black-and-white mode if reasonable. That also makes the image file smaller, which is good.
6. A final slide saying only, "Thank you", is pointless. It's better to recap the talk, perhaps with a selection of images from previous slides.

Where I was two weeks ago

1. 27th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, Nov 3-4, Stony Brook. I gave a talk.
2. 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data. I gave a talk.
3. 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems Tuesday November 7 - Friday November 10, 2017 — Redondo Beach, California, USA. I gave a talk and chaired a session.

Thanksgiving trivia questions

1. When the native American Squanto greeted the Pilgrims in March 1621, what language did he use?
2. Where had he learned it?