TV_Workshop_Agenda

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Purpose: To solicit feedback from the scientific community about tree visualization, using an ipTOL- designed prototype to stimulate discussion.

Overview Agenda (detailed agenda below)

Day 1
AM 3.5 hours

  • 8:00  COFFEE / REFRESHMENTS
  • 8:30  Introductions 20 minutes
  • 8:50  Brief presentation: role and purpose of treeviz group, introduce use cases, agenda and goals of meeting (Karen) -- 20 minutes
  • 9:10   Introduce prototype for Big Trees use case (Adam)  -- 50 minutes
  • 10:00 BREAK 15  minutes
  • 10:15 Detailed comments / questions / critiques / suggestions on the prototype -- 45 minutes
  • 11:00 Suggestions for extensions and additional features -- 45 minutes
  • 11:45 - 1:00  LUNCH

PM  4.5 hours

  • 1:00  Expanding the scope for the Big Tree Viewer (Mark W) -- additional features   90 minutes
  • 2:30  BREAK 15 minutes
  • 2:45  Visualizations for Tree comparisons use case (David H) 90 minutes
  • 4:15  Visualization Tools and Techniques of potential value for iPToL visualization 60 minutes
  • 5:15  Adjourn for the day
  • 7:00 - 9:00 DINNER

Day 2
AM  3.5 hours

  • 8:00 COFFEE / REFRESHMENTS
  • 8:30   Next Steps and Action Items for Big Trees product - 60 min
  • 8:30  BREAK 15 minutes
  • 9:45 Next Steps and Action Items for Tree Comparison product(s)- 60 min
  • 10:45 Requirements to share with cyberinfrastructure development team - 30 minutes
  • 11:15 Identification of scientific problems that will be addressed by the iPToL tree visualization innovations-- 30 minutes
    • What will scientists be able to do that has never been done before?
  • 11:45 WORKING LUNCH AND WRAP-UP
  • 2:00 ADJOURN

PM

  • 2:00 - 3:00  Collate information and draft summary (Karen, Natalie, Bernice)

Detailed Agenda, including discussion topics and issues

Day 1
AM 3.5 hours

  • 8:00 BREAKFAST
  • 8:30  Introductions 20 minutes
  • 8:50  Brief presentation: role and purpose of treeviz group, introduce use cases, agenda and goals of meeting (Karen) -- 20 minutes
    • Focus on building tools to support current and evolving scientific needs-- looking beyond the current horizon
  • 9:10 Introduce prototype for Big Trees use case (Adam)  -- 50 minutes
  • 10:00 BREAK 15  minutes
  • 10:15 Detailed comments / questions / critiques / suggestions on the prototype -- 45 minutes
    • Layout of branches
    • Text and Labeling
    • Scalability, fluidity of browsing
    • Ease of navigation-- what are the possible navigation paths?
  • 11:00 Suggestions for extensions and additional features -- 45 minutes
    • User interactions (e.g., collapse, rotate clades, add labels, add annotations, etc)
    • Analytical operations
    • Additional views of the data (e.g., drill-downs, alternate representations)
    • User interface (clear, intuitive, aesthetic design)
  • 11:45 - 1:00  LUNCH

PM  4.5 hours

  • 1:00 Expanding the scope for the Big Tree Viewer  90 minutes
    • What features are needed by other groups (ipTOL or other)?
    • Metadata
      • Identify types of metadata that should/could be mapped onto the tree
      • Discuss methods for visualizing metadata on the tree
    • Dynamic linking with other visualizations (e.g., linking a visualization of gene browser)
    • Drill downs to annotations, comparative maps, trait databases, literature
    • Adding images - can this be done in a "social computing" manner, involving the community? 
  • 2:30   BREAK 15 minutes
  • 2:45   Visualizations for Tree comparisons use case 90 minutes
    • Providing insight into tree reconciliation (co-evolution, mapping gene trees and species trees)
    • Extracting the phylogenetic signal in thousands of input trees
    • Integrating statistical and analytical methods
    • Methods for identifying, annotating and communicating patterns
    • What features are needed by other groups?
    • etc
  • 4:15 Visualization Tools and Techniques of potential value for iPToL visualization 60 minutes
    • ViVA - open source tool and library developed at IBM Research for interactive data visualization -- Bernice Rogowitz
    • Interactive network visualization and analytics - Stephen Kouborov
    • Tree Maps
    • Mash-ups 
    • Annotation through social networks
  • 5:15 Adjourn for the day
  • 7:00 - 9:00 DINNER

Day 2
AM  3.5 hours

  • 8:00 BREAKFAST
  • 8:30   Next Steps and Action Items for Big Trees product - 60 min
    • Identification and prioritization of key features to incorporate
    • Staging the development:  Timeline for feature integration
    • iEvoBio viz challenge submission?
    • Identification of metadata resources
  • 9:30  BREAK 15 minutes
  • 9:45 Next Steps and Action Items for Tree Comparison product(s)- 60 min
    • Identify visual analysis needs and desirable tools
    • Prioritize based on desire and difficulty
      • Identify resources (scientific consulting, programmer time) for top priorities
  • 10:45 Requirements to share with cyberinfrastructure development team - 30 minutes
    • Requirements for types of data, interaction, metadata integration, linked representations, drill-down, user interface, etc.
    • Communication of key metadata sources
  • 11:15 Identification of scientific problems that will be addressed by the iPToL tree visualization innovations-- 30 minutes
    • What will scientists be able to do that has never been done before?
  • 11:45 WORKING LUNCH AND WRAP-UP
    • Other people we should invite to the group?
    • Strategies for keeping connected post-meeting
    • etc.
  • 2:00 ADJOURN

PM

  • 2:00 - 3:00  Collate information and draft summary (Karen, Natalie, Bernice)