IED Class 24, Mon 2017-11-27
Today
Project work & team consultations
General comments about Milestone 1
- Everything that you submit should be labeled with what it is, and the date. Including contact info like email addresses is also useful.
- Please include page numbers on slides and reports, so we can refer to particular pages.
- 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.
- At the least, make all the tables look the same.
- 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.
- 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
- 27th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, Nov 3-4, Stony Brook. I gave a talk.
- 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data. I gave a talk.
- 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
- When the native American Squanto greeted the Pilgrims in March 1621, what language did he use?
- Where had he learned it?