The week after Vis: December 15-19. Beyond the End

For the past 15 weeks, you would be expecting the “Week in Vis” posting around now.

To help you transition to the world without the weekly Friday posting, here is a last one. (probably not the last posting)

There is a survey Survey 15: End of Semester (due Fri, Dec 11) - technically, it’s due today, but I won’t fault anyone for doing it after DC3 is handed in. In fact, you get my sincere appreciation for doing it at all. The feedback will really help me plan future classes. The survey will stay open through next Wednesday (the 16th).

As you know, the DC3 Deadline is here. The deadline is officially Sunday Monday, 11:59pm (yes, there was a typo that said the 14th was Saturday). Please turn everything in as promptly as possible.

The project description is a little vague on turning things in late. It says “this deadline is firm” in bold, but it also says you can turn things in late (on the 15th) for a penalty. Let me pre-empt the wave of Piazza posts and emails…

On Monday Tuesday morning (December 15th), Young and I will meet and start grading. If you turn things in before then, we won’t notice. And no, I can’t tell you when we will start (OK, it won’t be before 9am).

Once we start grading… we will look through all the assignments and put them into batches so we can group like assignments together. If your assignment isn’t there, we can’t determine which batch to put it in. Also, we will use Canvas to download everything in “batch” - so if yours isn’t there, we will have to make a special trip to Canvas. It’s a hassle for everyone. Also, when we do our initial check on Monday Tuesday, if there’s a problem, we will contact you with a chance to fix it. If you try to turn things in late, you will lose that opportunity. So, there’s no specific penalty - but it affects how we evaluate assignments.

So, just please turn everything in before Monday Tuesday morning.

A Proper Ending for Class

Having BBCU die in the middle of lecture was not the way I had hoped to end the semester. I am not sure what to do after that. I’ll probably make a posting at some point over the weekend. There will also be a final posting explaining the details of how grading worked out. And maybe something about how to pursue Vis beyond class for those who are interested.

And about grading details… We have a lot of grading information, but we might not be able to get it all uploaded to Canvas.